(2) For the purposes of the application of section 24(7) in relation to an act done before the commencement of this Act—
- (a) a reference in that section to copyright shall include a reference to copyright under the Copyright Act 1911; and
- (b) a reference in that section to the licence of the owner of copyright shall be read as a reference to the consent or acquiescence of the owner.
Division 2—Original Works
Expired copyright not to revive
210.—(1) Notwithstanding anything in Part III, copyright shall not subsist by virtue of that Part in a work first published before the commencement of this Act unless copyright subsisted in the work under the Copyright Act 1911 immediately before the commencement of this Act.
(2) Subsection (1) shall not apply in relation to a work to which Division 5 applies.
Original works in which copyright subsists
211.—(1) Section 27(1) shall apply to works made before the commencement of this Act as if each reference in that subsection to a qualified person included a reference to a British subject and to a person domiciled in a country to which the Copyright Act 1911 extended.
(2) Section 27(2) shall apply to works first published before the commencement of this Act—
- (a) as if each reference in paragraph (c) of that subsection to Singapore included a reference to a country to which the Copyright Act 1911 extended; and
- (b) as if paragraphs (d) and (e) of that subsection were omitted.
(3) Section 27(2) shall apply to works that are first published after the commencement of this Act and the author of which died before the commencement of the repealed Citizenship Ordinance 1957 as if the reference in paragraph (e) of that section to a qualified person included
