The only bit missing is info on the King James I Bible (Authorised Version). This along with a few other ancient official works (most far less famous like an "official" Latin Grammar compiled at King Henry VIII's orders) are supposedly covered by an obscure branch of the Royal Prerogative (a set of powers a bit like the US President's Executive Privileges).
It is, if it still exists at all (plenty of debate about that), a residual right and, to the extent that it conflicted with normal copyright rules, has been supplanted by the same (cf. University of Oxford v Eyre & Spottiswoode [1964] and the 1956 Act).
Interestingly, though, the *new* UK copyright Act does have express savings provisions for such rights (can you save a right already extinguished by implication under previous legislation ?)
Gary Lea, Reading
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Received on Thu May 02 1996 - 09:00:53 GMT
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