Section 4

Subject to this section, the designer of a design is to be treated for the purposes of this Act as the owner of the design.

Where a design is created by an employee in the course of his or her employment, his or her employer is to be treated as the owner of the design.

Subsection (2) is subject to any agreement to the contrary between the parties concerned.

Where a design, or the right to apply a design to any article or non‑physical product, becomes vested, whether by assignment, transmission or operation of law, in any person other than the owner, either alone or jointly with the owner, that other person or (as the case may be) the owner and that other person, is to be treated for the purposes of this Act as the owner of the design or as the owner of the design in relation to that article or non‑physical product.

In the case of a design generated by computer in circumstances such that there is no human designer, the person by whom the arrangements necessary for the creation of the design are made is deemed to be the designer.