Copyright Order, 1999 · As enacted · Chapter V · Dealings with Rights in Copyright Works
98. (1)
Official textFrom Attorney General's Chambers, unchanged
On the death of a person entitled to a right conferred by sections 80, 83 or 88 -
(a} the right passes to such person as he may by will specifically direct;
(b} if there is no such direction but the copyright in the work forms part of his estate, the right passes to the person to whom the copyright passes; and
(c}
if or to the extent that the right does not pass under paragraphs (a} or (b), it is exercisable by his personal representative.
Where copyright forming part of a person's estate passes in part to one person and in part to another, including cases where a bequest is limited so as to apply -
(a} to one or more, but not all, of the things the copyright owner has the exclusive right to do or authorise; or
to part, but not the whole, of the period for which the copyright is to subsist, any right which passes with the copyright under subsection ( 1) is correspondingly divided.
Where under paragraphs (a} or (b} of subsection (1) a right becomes exercisable by more than one person -
it may,· in the case of the right conferred by section 80, be asserted by any of them;
it is, in the case of the right conferred by sections 83
or 88, a right exercisable by each of them and is satisfied in relation to any of them if he consents to the treatment or act in question; and 312
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