COPYRIGHT ACT 1968 - SECT 247 Contributions to periodicals

COPYRIGHT ACT 1968 - SECT 247

    Where:

  (a)   a work to which this Division applies (in this section referred to as the relevant work ) consists of an essay, article or item forming part of, and first published in, a review, magazine or other periodical or work of a like nature; and

  (b)   immediately before the commencement of this Act, a right of publishing the relevant work in a separate form subsisted by virtue of the note to the First Schedule to the Copyright Act, 1911;

copyright subsisting in the relevant work by virtue of this Act is subject to that right of publishing the relevant work in a separate form.