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Provided-that not more than two of such passages from works by the same
author are published by the same publisher within five years, and that the
source from which such passages are taken is acknowledged;
(e) the publication in a newspaper of a report of a lecture delivered in public,
unless the report is prohibited by conspicuous written or printed notice
affixed before and maintained during the lecture ator about the main entrance
of the building in which the lecture is given, and, except whilst the building
is being used for public worship, in a position near the lecture; but nothing
in this paragraph shall affect the provisions in paragraph (a) as to news
.paper summaries;
(f) the reading or recitation in public ·by one person of any reasonable extract
from any published work.
(2) Copyright in a work shall also be deemed to be infringed by any person who
(a) sells or lets for hire, or by way of trade exposes or offers for sale or hire; or
.(b) distributes either for the purposes of trade or to such an extent as to affect
prejudicially the owner of the copyright; or
(c) by way of trade exhibits in public; or
Cd) imports for sale or hire into any part of the British Commonwealth to which
this Act extends,
any work which to his knowledge infringes copyright or would infringe copyright if it had
been made within the part of the British Commonwealth in or into which the sale or hiring,
exposure, offering for sale, or hire distribution, exhibition, or importation took place.
(3) Copyright in a work. shall also be deemed to be infringed by any person who for
his private profit permits a theatre or other place of entertainment to be used for the perform
ance in public of the work without the consent of the owner of the copyright, unless be was
not aware, and had no reasonable ground for suspecting, that the performance would be an
infringement of copyright.
Term of Copyright.
5.
The term for which copyright shall subsist shall, except as otherwise expressly
provided by this Act, be the life of the author and a period of fifty years after his death:
Provided that at any time after the expiry of twenty-five years, or in the case of a work
in which copyright subsists at the commencement of this Act thirty years, from the death
of the author of a published work, copyright in the work shall not be deemed to be infringed
by the reproduction of the work for sale if the person reproducing the work proves that he
has given the prescribed notice in writing of his intention to reproduce the work, and that
he has paid in the prescribed manner to, or for the benefit of, the owner of the copyright
royalties in respect of all copies of the work sold by him calculated at the rate of ten per cent
on the price at which he publishes the work ; and, for the purposes of this proviso, the
Minister may make regulations' prescribing the mode in which notices are to be given, and
the particulars to be given in such notices, and the mode, time, and frequency of the payment
of royalties, including (if they think fit) regulations requiring payment in advance or other
wise securing the payment of royalties.