COPYRIGHT ACT 1968 - SECT 240 Bequests
COPYRIGHT ACT 1968 - SECT 240
Bequests(1) Section 198 does not apply in relation to a bequest contained in the will of a testator who died before the commencement of this Act.
(a) an author has died before the commencement of this Act;
(b) a person has acquired, under the will of the author, the ownership of a manuscript of a work by the author; and
(c) the work:
(ii) in the case of a dramatic or musical work--has not been performed in public; and
(iii) in the case of a lecture--has not been delivered in public;
the ownership by that person of the manuscript is evidence that that person is the owner of the copyright in the work.
(3) In the last preceding subsection, expressions that are
defined by section 204 have the meanings respectively given to those
expressions by that section and do not have the meanings, if any, respectively
given to those expressions by Part II.