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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

57 Anonymous or pseudonymous works: acts permitted on assumptions as to expiry of copyright or death of author.

(1) Copyright in a literary, dramatic, musical or artistic work is not infringed by an act done at a time when, or in pursuance of arrangements made at a time when— (a) it is not possible by reasonable inquiry to ascertain the identity of the author, and (b) it is reasonable to assume— (i) that copyright has expired, or (ii) that the author died 70 years or more before the beginning of the calendar year in which the act is done or the arrangements are made. (2) Subsection (1)(b)(ii) does not apply in relation to— (a) a work in which Crown copyright subsists, or (b) a work in which copyright originally vested in an international organisation by virtue of section 168 and in respect of which an Order under that section specifies a copyright period longer than 70 years. (3) In relation to a work of joint authorship— (a) the reference in subsection (1) to its being possible to ascertain the identity of the author shall be construed as a reference to its being possible to ascertain the identity of any of the authors, and (b) the reference in subsection (1)(b)(ii) to the author having died shall be construed as a reference to all the authors having died.

Your change, as a redline

57 Anonymous or pseudonymous works: acts permitted on assumptions as to expiry of copyright or death of author.

(1) Copyright in a literary, dramatic, musical or artistic work is not infringed by an act done at a time when, or in pursuance of arrangements made at a time when— (a) it is not possible by reasonable inquiry to ascertain the identity of the author, and (b) it is reasonable to assume— (i) that copyright has expired, or (ii) that the author died 70 years or more before the beginning of the calendar year in which the act is done or the arrangements are made. (2) Subsection (1)(b)(ii) does not apply in relation to— (a) a work in which Crown copyright subsists, or (b) a work in which copyright originally vested in an international organisation by virtue of section 168 and in respect of which an Order under that section specifies a copyright period longer than 70 years. (3) In relation to a work of joint authorship— (a) the reference in subsection (1) to its being possible to ascertain the identity of the author shall be construed as a reference to its being possible to ascertain the identity of any of the authors, and (b) the reference in subsection (1)(b)(ii) to the author having died shall be construed as a reference to all the authors having died.

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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