Part III
—cont.article, would have constituted an infringement of that copyright if the article had been made in the place into which it was imported; and “ plate ”e includes any stereotype, stone, block, mould, matrix, transfer, negative or other appliance.
(4) In the application of this section to Scotland, for any reference to the conversion or detention by any person of an infringing copy there shall be substituted a reference to an Intromission by any person with an infringing copy, and for any reference to articles converted or detained there shall be substituted a reference to articles intromitted with.
Proceedings
in case of
copyright
subject to
exclusive
licence.19.—(1) The provisions of this section shall have effect as to proceedings in the case of any copyright in respect of which an exclusive licence has been granted and is in force art the time of the events to which the proceedings relate.
(2) Subject to the following provisions of this section—
(b) the exclusive licensee shall (except against the owner of the copyright) have the same rights of action, and be entitled to the same remedies, by virtue of the last preceding section as if the licence had been an assignment; and
(c) the owner of the copyright shall not have any rights of action, or be entitled to any remedies, by virtue of the last preceding section which he would not have had or been entitled to if the licence had been an assignment.
(3) Where an action is brought either by the owner of the copyright or by the exclusive licensee, and the action, in so far as it is brought under section seventeen of this Act, relates (wholly or partly) to an infringement in respect of which they have concurrent rights of action under that section, the owner or licensee, as the case may be, -shall not be entitled, except with the leave of the court, to proceed with the action, in so far as it is brought under that section and relates to that infringement, unless the other party is either joined as a plaintiff in the action or added as a defendant:
Provided that this subsection shall not affect the granting of an interlocutory injunction on the application of either of them.
(4) In any action brought by the exclusive licensee by virtue of this section, any defence which would have been available to
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