Section 97
Ownership of copyright in sound recordings
ActIn forceProvision 166 of 348
Section 97
(1)
This section shall have effect subject to Part X.
(2)
Subject to subsection (3), the maker of a sound recording is the owner of any copyright subsisting in the recording by virtue of this Part.
(3)
Where —
(a)
a person makes, for valuable consideration, an agreement with another person for the making of a sound recording by the other person; and
(b)
the recording is made in pursuance of the agreement,the first-mentioned person is, in the absence of any agreement to the contrary, the owner of any copyright subsisting in the recording by virtue of this Part.[Aust. 1968, s. 97]