217. Industrial designs
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Division 10 of Part III and the Schedule shall not apply to artistic works made before 10th April 1987.
Copyright shall not subsist by virtue of this Act in an artistic work made before 10th April 1987 which, at the time when the work was made, constituted a design capable of being registered under the Patents and Designs Act 1907 of the United Kingdom (U.K. 1907, c. 29), and was used, or intended to be used, as a model or pattern to be multiplied by an industrial process.[Aust. 1968, s. 218]
artistic work
“artistic work” means —(a)a painting, sculpture, drawing, engraving or photograph, whether the work is of artistic quality or not;(b)a building or model of a building, whether the building or model is of artistic quality or not; or(c)a work of artistic craftsmanship to which neither paragraph (a) nor (b) applies,but does not include a layout-design or an integrated circuit within the meaning of section 2(1) of the Layout-Designs of Integrated Circuits Act;