Part 5
Dealing with rights in copyright works

Licences to deal with copyright works

111 Licences
  • (1) A licence granted by a copyright owner is binding on every successor in title to that person's interest in the copyright, except a purchaser in good faith for valuable consideration and without notice (actual or constructive) of the licence or a person deriving title from such a purchaser; and references in this Act to doing anything—

    • (a) with, or without, the licence of the copyright owner; or

    • (b) other than pursuant to a copyright licence—

    shall be construed accordingly.

    (2) The licensee under an exclusive licence has the same rights against a successor in title who is bound by the licence as that licensee has against the copyright owner.

    Compare: 1962 No 33 s 56(4); Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 ss 90(4), 92(2) (UK)