(As amended by Act No. 25 of 1987)
PART IV
EFFECT OF REGISTRATION, ETC.
Right given by
14. (1) The registration of a design under this Act shall give to the
registered proprietor the copyright in the registered design, that is to say, registration
the exclusive right in Zambia to make or import for sale or for use for the
purposes of any trade or business, or to sell, hire or offer for sale or hire,
any article in respect of which the design is registered, being an article to
which the registered design or a design not substantially different from
the registered design has been applied, and to make anything for
enabling any such article to be made as aforesaid.
(2) Subject to the provisions of this Act, the registration of a design
shall have the same effect against the State as it has against a subject.
(As amended by G.N. No. 187 of 1964
and S.I. No. 175 of 1965)
15. (1) Copyright in a registered design shall, subject to the provisions Period of
copyright
of this Act, subsist for a period of five years from the date of
registration.
(2) The Registrar shall extend the period of copyright for a second
period of five years from the expiration of the original period and for a
third period of five years from the expiration of the second period if an
application for extension of the period of copyright for the second or
third period is made in the prescribed form before the expiration of the
original period or the second period, as the case may be, and if the
prescribed fee is paid before the expiration of the relevant period or
within such further period (not exceeding three months) as may be
specified in a request made to the Registrar and accompanied by the
prescribed additional fee.
(3) Where in the case of a registered design it is shown(a)
that the design, at the time when it was registered, was a
corresponding design in relation to an artistic work in which copyright
subsisted under the written law relating to copyright.