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IPIN/l/SWZ/C/l Page 5 4 of 15 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.

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