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Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988

Write the words of this act the way you think they should read. Solon shows your change as a redline against the published text and pins it to that exact text, so it can never be applied to wording you did not see.

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As published

205D Requirement that right be asserted

(1) A person does not infringe the right conferred by section 205C (right to be identified as performer) by doing any of the acts mentioned in that section unless the right has been asserted in accordance with the following provisions so as to bind him in relation to that act. (2) The right may be asserted generally, or in relation to any specified act or description of acts— (a) by instrument in writing signed by or on behalf of the performer, or (b) on an assignment of a performer's property rights, by including in the instrument effecting the assignment a statement that the performer asserts in relation to the performance his right to be identified. (3) The persons bound by an assertion of the right under subsection (2) are— (a) in the case of an assertion under subsection (2)(a), anyone to whose notice the assertion is brought; (b) in the case of an assertion under subsection (2)(b), the assignee and anyone claiming through him, whether or not he has notice of the assertion. (4) In an action for infringement of the right the court shall, in considering remedies, take into account any delay in asserting the right.

Your change, as a redline

205D Requirement that right be asserted

(1) A person does not infringe the right conferred by section 205C (right to be identified as performer) by doing any of the acts mentioned in that section unless the right has been asserted in accordance with the following provisions so as to bind him in relation to that act. (2) The right may be asserted generally, or in relation to any specified act or description of acts— (a) by instrument in writing signed by or on behalf of the performer, or (b) on an assignment of a performer's property rights, by including in the instrument effecting the assignment a statement that the performer asserts in relation to the performance his right to be identified. (3) The persons bound by an assertion of the right under subsection (2) are— (a) in the case of an assertion under subsection (2)(a), anyone to whose notice the assertion is brought; (b) in the case of an assertion under subsection (2)(b), the assignee and anyone claiming through him, whether or not he has notice of the assertion. (4) In an action for infringement of the right the court shall, in considering remedies, take into account any delay in asserting the right.

One line that says what changes, such as "Halve the dog tax".

Who it helps, what it costs, what it fixes. It is what persuades people to support it.

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