Copyright (Foreign Countries) Order, 1978

• Jurisdiction: Ireland
• Year: 1978
• Citation: IR SI 132/1978

S.I. No. 132 of 1978.

COPYRIGHT (FOREIGN COUNTRIES) ORDER, 1978.

The Government, in exercise of the powers conferred on them by section 43 of the Copyright Act, 1963 (No. 10 of 1963), and section 175 of the Industrial and Commercial Property (Protection) Act, 1927 (No. 16 of 1927), as amended by section 11 of the Industrial and Commercial Property (Protection) (Amendment) Act, 1929 (No. 13 of 1929), and section 11 of the Industrial and Commercial Property (Protection) (Amendment) Act, 1957 (No. 13 of 1957), as adapted by section 2 of the Executive Powers (Consequential Provisions) Act, 1937 (No. 20 of 1937), and continued in force by Part VIII of the First Schedule to the Copyright Act, 1963 , hereby order as follows:— 1. This Order may be cited as the Copyright (Foreign Countries) Order, 1978. 2. In this Order

"the Act" means the Copyright Act, 1963 (No. 10 of 1963);

"Country of the Berne Union" means a country which ratifiedor has acceded to and has not denounced the Convention of the International Union for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works signed at Berne on the 9th day of September, 1886, or ratified or has acceded to and has not denounced a revision of that Convention;

"country of the Universal Copyright Convention" means a country which ratified or has acceded to and has not denounced the Universal Copyright Convention signed at Geneva on the 6th day of September, 1952, or has acceded to and has not denounced a revision of that Convention. 3. Subject to Articles 4, 5 and 6 of this Order, the Act shall, as respects acts done or omissions made after the commencement of this Order, apply to:

( a ) literary, dramatic, musical or artistic works, cinematography films or published editions of literary, dramatic or musical works, first published (whether before or after the making of this Order) in any country of the Berne Union or of the Universal Copyright Convention, in like manner as if the works or other subject matter were first published within the State,

( b ) literary, dramatic, musical or artistic works, cinematograph films or published editions of literary, dramatic or musical works (whether first published before or after the making of this Order), the authors or makers of which were, at the time of the first publication thereof, subjects or citizens of any country of the Berne Union or of the Universal Copyright Convention, in like manner as if the works were the works of Irish citizens,

( c ) unpublished...