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Copyright Act, 2004,
(4) An assignment of copyright shall be in writing and
signed by the owner of the copyright or by the person
authorised by him or her for the purpose,
(5) A licence to do an act that falls within copyright may
be oral, written or inferred from conduct.
(6) In the case of joint authorship of a work, an
assignment or a licence for the work shall be subject to
the authorisation of the joint authors.
(7) Where a work is of joint authorship and one of the
joint authors withholds his or her consent to an
assignment or the granting of a licence, the matter shall
be referred to the Centre to determine whether or not
consent should be granted in respect of the assignment
or licence and upon what conditions,
Presumption
of authorship
and of
representation
of the author
17. ( 1 ) An individual whose name is indicated as the
author on a work in the usual manner shall, in the
absence of proof to the contrary, be presumed to be the
pseudonym, of the work notwithstanding that the name is
a pseudonym if the pseudonym leaves no doubt as to the
identity of the author,
(2) In the case of an anonymous work of pseudonymous
work whose author is not identified, the publisher whose
name appears on the work shall, in the absence of proof
to the contrary, be presumed to represent the author
and, in this capacity, shall be entitled to exercise and
enforce the economic rights and moral rights of the
author but this presumption shall cease to apply when
me author reveals his or her identity.