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Copyright Act · 2006 Revised Edition · Part X · Miscellaneous
196. Copyright to pass under will with unpublished work
Feedback & supportWhere under a bequest (whether specific or general) a person is entitled, beneficially or otherwise, to the manuscript of a literary, dramatic or musical work, or to an artistic work, and the work was not published before the death of the testator, the bequest shall, unless a contrary intention is indicated in the testator’s will or a codicil thereto, be construed as including the copyright in the work insofar as the testator was the owner of the copyright immediately before his death.[Aust. 1968, s. 198]
manuscript
Defined · s 7
“manuscript”, in relation to a work, means an original document embodying the work, whether written by hand or not;