[21stApril 2014]
Supplement to Qfficial Gazette
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(d) cases where, under Part II, a work can be
used without the authorisation of the author
or other owner of copyright.
PART IV
VOLUNTARY REGISTRATION OF COPYIUGHTS
28.(1) The President may, by notice in the Gazette,
appoint a Registrar of Copyrights who shall cause a Copyrights
Register to be established and maintained.
(2) The owner of the copyright in a work may apply to
the Registrar for registration of the copyright in such manner
and with such fee and other documentation or information as
may be prescribed by regulation.
(3) If the Registrar is satisfied that the applicant is the
owner of the copyright in the work the Registrar shall register
him or her in the Copyright Register as the registered ovmer of
that registered copyright.
(4) Where a person claims that he or she and not the
registered owner is the owner of a registered copyright, he may
apply to the Supreme Court to be registered as owner in the
Copyright Register in place of the then registered owner.
(5) Without prejudice to this section or to any question
or action about whether copyright subsists in the work, only the
registered owner is deemed for the purposes of thisAct to be
the owner of a registered copyright.
(6) The registered owner of a registered copyright may
register in the Copyright Register any agreement, contract,
assignment, licence or document relating to or dealing with the
registered copyright.
(7) An agreement, contract, assignment, licence or
document relating to or dealing with a registered copyright is
admissible in evidence in a criminal trial or proceeding,
notwithstanding that it is not registeredunder subsection (1).
Voluntary
registration of
copyrights