Revised Laws of Saint Lucia (2021)

27.   Prospective owner of copyright

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    (1)   Where, by an agreement made in relation to any future copyright and signed by or on behalf of the prospective owner of the copyright, the prospective owner purports to assign the future copyright (wholly or partially) to another person (in this subsection referred to as “the assignee”), then if, on the coming into existence of the copyright, the assignee or a person claiming under him or her would be entitled as against all other persons to require the copyright to be vested in him or her (wholly or partly, as the case may be), the copyright shall, on coming into existence, vest in the assignee or his or her successor in title by virtue of this subsection.

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    (2)   Where, at a time when any copyright come into existence, the person who, if he or she were then living would be entitled to the copyright is dead, the copyright shall devolve as if it had subsisted immediately before his or her death and he or she had then been the owner of the copyright.

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    (3)   Section 25(4) shall apply, in relation to a licence granted by a prospective owner of any copyright, as it applies in relation to a licence granted by the owner of a subsisting copyright and as if any reference in that subsection to the owner's interest in the copyright included a reference to his or her prospective interest therein.