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COPYRIGHT ACT 1968 - SECT 132A Presumptions in relation to subsistence and ownership of copyright

COPYRIGHT ACT 1968 - SECT 132A

Presumptions in relation to subsistence and ownership of copyright

  (1)   This section applies to a prosecution for an offence against this Division, except section   132AM, in relation to a work or other subject matter.

Labels or marks

  (2)   If a copy of the work or other subject matter, or the packaging or container in which the copy is packaged or contained, bears a label or mark stating the year and place of the first publication, or of the making, of the work or other subject matter, then that year and place are presumed to be as stated on the label or mark, unless the contrary is established.

  (3)   If a copy of the work or other subject matter, or the packaging or container in which the copy is packaged or contained, bears a label or mark stating that a person was the owner of copyright in the work or other subject matter at a particular time, then the person is presumed to have been the owner of the copyright at the time, unless the contrary is established.

Foreign certificates

  (4)   If a certificate or other document issued in a qualifying country in accordance with a law of that country states the year and place of the first publication, or of the making, of the work or other subject matter, then that year and place are presumed to be as stated in the certificate or document, unless the contrary is established.

  (5)   If a certificate or other document issued in a qualifying country in accordance with a law of that country states that a person was the owner of copyright in the work or other subject matter at a particular time, then the person is presumed to have been the owner of the copyright at the time, unless the contrary is established.

  (6)   For the purposes of this section, a document purporting to be a certificate or document referred to in subsection   (4) or (5) is, unless the contrary intention is established, taken to be such a certificate or document.