Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988

1(1)In this Schedule—U.K.

  • the 1911 Act” means the M1Copyright Act 1911,

  • the 1956 Act” means the M2Copyright Act 1956, and

  • the new copyright provisions” means the provisions of this Act relating to copyright, that is, Part I (including this Schedule) and Schedules 3, 7 and 8 so far as they make amendments or repeals consequential on the provisions of Part I.

(2)References in this Schedule to “commencement”, without more, are to the date on which the new copyright provisions come into force.

(3)References in this Schedule to “existing works” are to works made before commencement; and for this purpose a work of which the making extended over a period shall be taken to have been made when its making was completed.

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