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contrivances, whether made before or after the passing of this . A
. ct, except
on the terms and subject to the conditions laid down in this section;
(e) where the work is a work on which copyright is conferred by an Order in
Council relating to a foreign country, the copyright so conferred shall not,
except to 'such extent as may be provided by the Order, include any rights
with respect to the making of records, perforated rolls, or other contrivances
by means of which the work may be mechanically performed.
(8) Notwithstanding anything in this Act, where a record, perforated roll, or other
contrivance by means of which sounds may be mechanically reproduced has been made
before the commencement of this Act, copyright shall) as from the commencement of this
Act, subsist therein in like manner and for the like term as if this Act had been in force at
the date of the making of the original plate from which the contrivance was directly OT
indirectly derived:
Provided that
(i) the person who, at the commencement of this Act, is the owner of sucb
original plate shall be the first owner of such copyright; and
(ii) nothing in this provision shall be construed as conferring copyright in any
such contrivance if the making thereof would have infringed copyright in
some other such contrivance, if this provision had been in force at the time
of the making of the first-mentioned contrivance.
Provisions as to political speeches.
20.
Notwithstanding anything in this Act, it shall not be an infringement of copyright
in an address of a political nature delivered at a public meeting to publish a report thereof
in a newspaper.
Provisions as to photographs.
21..
The term for which copyright shall subsist in photographs shall p.e fifty years from
the making of the original negative from which the photograph was directly or indirectly
derived, and the person who was owner of such .negative at the time when such negative
was made shall be deemed to be the author of the work, and, where such owner is a body
corporate, the body corporate shall be deemed for the purposes of this Act to reside within
the parts of the British Commonwealth to which the Copyright . A
. ct, 1911 of tbe United
Kingdom extends if it bas established a place of business within such parts.
Provisions as to designs registrable under the Patent and Designs ~4.ct) 1907 of the U.K.
22.
(1) This Act shall not apply to designs capable of being registered under the Patents
and Designs Act, 1907, of the United Kingdom; except designs which, though capable of
being so registered, are not used or intended to be used as models or patterns to be multiplied
by any' industrial process.
(2) General rules made under section 86 of the said Patents and Designs Act, 1907,
before the 24th April, 1967, for determining the conditions under which a design shall be
deemed to beused for such purposes as aforesaid shall be applicable.