- (c) do any of the acts mentioned in paragraph (b) in relation to, or distribute, reproductions of the work, being reproductions in or on which another person’s name has been so inserted or affixed, if the offender knows that the other person is not the author of the work; or
- (d) perform in public or broadcast or include in a cable programme the work as being a work of which another person is the author, if the offender knows that the other person is not the author of the work.
(2) Subsection (1) shall apply where, contrary to the fact, a work is represented as being an adaptation of the work of another person in like manner as it applies where a work is represented as being the work of another person.
(3) After the death of the author of a work, a person shall, by virtue of this section, be under a duty to the legal personal representative of the author not to do in relation to, or to a reproduction of, the work or an adaptation of the work any act that, but for the death of the author, the person would, by reason of either subsection (1) or (2) have been under a duty to the author not to do.
(4) In this section,
- “work”, means a work in which copyright subsists.
Duty not to attribute falsely the authorship of altered work
189. Where a work in which copyright subsists has been altered by a person other than the author of the work, a person shall, by virtue of this section, be under a duty to the author of the work not to—
- (a) publish, sell or let for hire, or by way of trade offer or expose for sale or hire, the work as so altered, as being the unaltered work of the author; or
- (b) publish, sell or let for hire, or by way of trade offer or expose for sale or hire a reproduction of the work as so altered, as being a reproduction of the unaltered work of the author,
if, to his knowledge, it is not the unaltered work or a reproduction of the unaltered work, as the case may be, of the author.
