Publication of artistic works
215. Section 66 shall not apply in relation to a painting, drawing, engraving, photography or cinematograph film made before the date of commencement of this Act, but the copyright in an artistic work is not infringed by the publication of a painting, drawing, engraving, photograph or cinematograph film made before that date if, by virtue of section 63 or 64, the making of the painting, drawing, engraving, photograph or film would not have constituted an infringement of the copyright under this Act if this Act had been in operation at the time when it was made.
Reconstruction of buildings
216. The reference in section 72(2) to construction of a building by, or with the licence of, the owner of the copyright in architectural drawings or plans shall be read as including a reference to construction by, or with the licence of, the person who, at the time of the construction, was the owner of the copyright in the drawings or plans.
Industrial designs
217.—(1) Division 10 of Part III and the Schedule shall not apply to artistic works made before the commencement of this Act.
(2) Copyright shall not subsist by virtue of this Act in an artistic work made before the commencement of this Act which, at the time when the work was made, constituted a design capable of being registered under the Patents and Designs Act 1907 of the United Kingdom, and was used, or intended to be used, as a model or pattern to be multiplied by an industrial process.
Reproduction of work upon payment of royalties
218.—(1) The copyright in a literary, dramatic, musical or artistic work that has been published before the commencement of this Act is not infringed by the reproduction of the work for sale if—
- (a) the reproduction takes place at a time after expiration of 25 years, or, in the case of a work in which copyright subsisted at the commencement of the Copyright Act 1911, after the
