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SCHEDULE 2Amendments to other primary legislation

Amendment of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988

10.  After section 197 there shall be inserted—

Presumptions relevant to recordings of performances

197A(1) In proceedings brought by virtue of this Part with respect to the rights in a performance, where copies of a recording of the performance as issued to the public bear a statement that a named person was the performer, the statement shall be admissible as evidence of the fact stated and shall be presumed to be correct until the contrary is proved.

(2) Subsection (1) does not apply to proceedings for an offence under section 198 (criminal liability for making etc. illicit recordings); but without prejudice to its application in proceedings for an order under section 199 (order for delivery up in criminal proceedings)..