Copyright, Designs and Patents Act, 1988. Chapter 48.

  • Great Britain.
Date:
1988
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Licence: Open Government Licence

Credit: Copyright, Designs and Patents Act, 1988. Chapter 48. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Part I (d) distributes otherwise than in the course of a business so as to affect prejudicially the honour or reputation of the author or director, an article which is, and which he knows or has reason to believe is, an infringing article. (2) An “infringing article’ means a work or a copy of a work which— (a) has been subjected to derogatory treatment within the meaning of section 80, and (b) has been or is likely to be the subject of any of the acts mentioned in that section in circumstances infringing that right. False attribution of work False attribution 84.—(1) A person has the right in the circumstances mentioned in this of work. section— (a) not to have a literary, dramatic, musical or artistic work falsely attributed to him as author, and (b) not to have a film falsely attributed to him as director; and in this section an “‘attribution’’, in relation to such a work, means a statement (express or implied) as to who is the author or director. (2) The right is infringed by a person who— (a) issues to the public copies of a work of any of those descriptions in or on which there is a false attribution, or (b) exhibits in public an artistic work, or a copy of an artistic work, in or on which there is a false attribution. (3) The right is also infringed by a person who— (a) in the case of a literary, dramatic or musical work, performs the work in public, broadcasts it or includes it in a cable programme service as being the work of a person, or (b) in the case of a film, shows it in public, broadcasts it or includes it in a cable programme service as being directed by a person, knowing or having reason to believe that the attribution is false. (4) The right is also infringed by the issue to the public or public display of material containing a false attribution in connection with any of the acts mentioned in subsection (2) or (3). (5) The right is also infringed by a person who in the course of a business— (a) possesses or deals with a copy of a work of any of the descriptions mentioned in subsection (1) in or on which there is a false attribution, or (b) in the case of an artistic work, possesses or deals with the work itself when there is a false attribution in or on it, knowing or having reason to believe that there is such an attribution and that it is false.