Section 12(1) provides that copyright in a broadcast or cable programme shall expire at the end of a period of fifty years from the end of the calendar year in which the broadcast was made or the programme was included in a cable programme service. Copyright in a repeat broadcast or a repeat cable programme shall expire at the same time as copyright in the original broadcast or cable programme, and accordingly, no copyright shall arise in respect of a repeat broadcast or a repeat cable programme which is broadcast or, as the case may be, included in a cable programme service after the expiry of the copyright in the original broadcast or cable programme. A repeat broadcast or a repeat programme means one which is a repeat of a broadcast previously made, or as the case may be, of a cable programme previously included in a cable programme service.
Section 11(1) provides that copyright in a sound recording or film expires at the end of a period of fifty years from the end of the calendar year in which it was made, or where it is made available to the public before the end of that period, fifty years from the end of the calendar year in which it is so made available.
(2) For the purposes of subsection (1) of this section, a sound recording or film is made available to the public when
(a) it is first published, broadcast or included in a cable programme service;
(b) in the case of a film or film soundtrack, the film is first shown in public.
(3) In determining whether a sound recording or film has been made available to the public, for the purposes of subsection (2) of this section, any unauthorised act shall be disregarded.
Moral rights are also conferred on performers, producers of phonograms and broadcast organisations and these subsist so long as copyright exists.
