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(C) (D) RECORDANCE AS CONSTRUCTIVE NOTICE - Recordance of a document in the Copyright Office gives all persons constructive notice of the facts stated in the recorded document, but only if: ( 1) The document, or material attached to it, specifically identifies the work to which it pertains so that, after the document is indexed by the Director General of Copyright, it would be revealed by a reasonable search under the Chapter of registration number of the work; and (2) Registration has been made for the work. RECORDANCE AS PREREQUISITE TO INFRINGEMENT SUIT In the case of works first published in Liberia by Liberian authors, no persons claiming by virtue of a transfer to be the owner of copyright may institute an infringement action unless the claim has been recorded in the Copyright Office, but suit may be instituted after such recordance on a cause of action that arose before recordance. (E) PRIORITY BETWEEN CONFLICTING TRANSFERS As between two conflicting transfers, the one executed first prevails if it is recorded, in the manner required to give constructive notice under sub-section (c) within one month after its execution outside Liberia, or at any time before recordance in such manner of the later transfer. Otherwise, the later transfer prevails if recorded first in such manner, and if taken in good faith, for valuable consideration or on the basis of a binding promise to pay royalties, and without notice of the earlier transfer. (F) PRIORITY BETWEEN CONFLICTING TRANSFER OR OWNERSHIP AND NON EXCLUSIVE LICENSE A nonexclusive license, whether recorded or not, prevails over a conflicting transfer of copyright ownership if the license is evidenced by a written instrument signed by the owner of the rights licensed or such owner's duly authorized agent, and if: (1) The license was taken before execution of the transfer, or (2) The license was taken in good faith before recordance of the transfer and without notice of it. SECTION: 2.29 LICENSE BY OWNERSHIP OF COPYRIGHT The owner of the copyright in any existing work or the prospective owner of the copyright in any future work may grant any interest in the right by license in writing signed by him or his duly authorized agent; provided that in the case of a license relating to copyright in any future work, the license shall take effect only when the work comes into existence. That is to say, where a person to whom a license relating to copyright in any future work is granted under this section dies before the work comes into existence, his legal representatives shall, in the absence of any provision to the contrary in the license, be entitled to the benefit of the license. 30

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