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Section 14.2 — Copyright Act: Term

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Moral rights in respect of a work subsist for the same term as the copyright in the work. The moral rights in respect of a work pass, on the death of its author, to the person to whom those rights are specifically bequeathed; where there is no specific bequest of those moral rights and the author dies testate in respect of the copyright in the work, the person to whom that copyright is bequeathed; or where there is no person described in paragraph (a) or (b), the person entitled to any other property in respect of which the author dies intestate. Subsection (2) applies, with such modifications as the circumstances require, on the death of any person who holds moral rights.

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