[13B Duration of copyright in films]
Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 (1988 c 48) | Legislation

[13B  Duration of copyright in films]

[(1)     The following provisions have effect with respect to the duration of copyright in a film.

(2)     Copyright expires at the end of the period of 70 years from the end of the calendar year in which the death occurs of the last to die of the following persons—

(a)     the principal director,

(b)     the author of the screenplay,

(c)     the author of the dialogue, or

(d)     the composer of music specially created for and used in the film;

subject as follows.

(3)     If the identity of one or more of the persons referred to in subsection (2)(a) to (d) is known and the identity of one or more others is not, the reference

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