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Copyright Act 2021 · 2020 Revised Edition · Part 3 · Copyright in Works
168. Presumptions where author is dead
Feedback & support(1)
This section applies if it is proved that the author of an authorial work is dead.
(2)
The work is presumed to be original.
(3)
If the claimant alleges that a specified publication is the first publication of the work and that the first publication took place in a specified country and on a specified date —
(a)
the specified publication is presumed to be the first publication of the work; and
(b)
the first publication of the work is presumed to have taken place in the specified country and on the specified date.