Bankruptcy Act · 2021 Revised Edition · Part 3
65. Limitation of trustee's powers in relation to copyright
Official textFrom Attorney General's Chambers, unchanged
Where the property of a bankrupt comprises the copyright in any work or any interest in such copyright and he is liable to pay to the author of the work royalties or a share of the profits in respect thereof -
property
"property" includes money, goods, things in action, land and every description of property, whether real or personal and whether situate in Brunei Darussalam or elsewhere, also obligations, easements and every description of estate, interest and profit, present or future, vested or contingent, arising out of or incident to property as above defined;
the trustee shall not be entitled to sell or authorise the sale of any copies of the work, or to perform or authorise the performance of the work, except on the terms of paying to the author such sums by way of royalty or share of the profits as would have been payable by the bankrupt;
nor shall he, without the consent of the author or of the
Court, be entitled to assign the right or transfer the interest or to grant any interest in the right by licence, except upon terms which will secure to the author payments by way of royalty or share of the profits at a rate not less than that which the bankrupt was liable to
Pay.
Terms defined in s 2
property
Defined · s 2"property" includes money, goods, things in action, land and every description of property, whether real or personal and whether situate in Brunei Darussalam or elsewhere, also obligations, easements and every description of estate, interest and profit, present or future, vested or contingent, arising out of or incident to property as above defined;
Chapter
Chapter 19), unless he informs the trustee in writing to the contrary, is deemed to be his last known address for the purpose of subsection (3).
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