S.I. No. 132/1978 - Copyright (Foreign Countries) Order, 1978.

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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 works or cinematograph films of unpublished works the authors or makers of which were, at the time of the making of the works or films, subjects or citizens of any country of the Berne Union or of the Universal Copyright Convention, in like manner as if the authors or makers were Irish citizens, and ( d ) unpublished works or cinematograph films of unpublished works the authors or makers of which were, at the time of the making of the works or films, resident in any country of the Berne Union or of the Universal Copyright Convention, in like manner as if the authors or makers were resident in the State. 4. Copyright shall not subsist by virtue of this Order in any work or other subject-matter by reason only of the publication of the work or other subject-matter in a country of the Universal Copyright Convention (not being a country of the Berne Union) before— ( a ) the 20th day of January, 1959, or ( b ) if such country became a country of the Universal Copyright Convention on or after the 20th day of January, 1959, and before the date of the making of this Order, the date on which it became a country of the Universal Copyright Convention. 5. Nothing in the Act, as applied by this Order, shall be construed as reviving any right to make, or restrain the making of, or any right in respect of, translations, if the right has ceased before the making of this Order. 6. Where any person has, before the commencement of this Order, taken any action whereby he has incurred any expenditure or liability in connection with the reproduction or performance of any works or cinematograph films of works in a manner which at the time was lawful, or for the purpose of or with a view to the reproduction or performance of a work or cinematograph film at a time when such reproduction or performance would, but for this Order, have been lawful, nothing in this Order shall diminish or prejudice any right or interest arising from, or in connection with such action which is subsisting and valuable immediately before the commencement of this Order unless the person who, by virtue of this Order, becomes entitled to restrain such reproduction or performance agrees to pay such compensation as, failing agreement, may be determined by arbitration. 7.