Revised Laws of Saint Lucia (2021)

41.   Infringement of right to object to derogatory treatment of work

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    (1)   The right conferred on an author or a director by section 15 to object to derogatory treatment of his or her work is infringed—

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      (a)     in the case of a literary, dramatic or musical work, by a person who—

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        (i)     publishes commercially (within the meaning specified in section 22), performs in public, broadcasts or includes in a cable programme service, a derogatory treatment of the work, or

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        (ii)     issues to the public copies of a film or sound recording of, or including, a derogatory treatment of the work;

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      (b)     in the case of an artistic work, by a person who—

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        (i)     publishes commercially (within the meaning specified in section 22) or exhibits in public a derogatory treatment of the work, or broadcasts or includes in a cable programme service a visual image of a derogatory treatment of the work,

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        (ii)     shows in public a film which includes a visual image of a derogatory treatment of the work or issues to the public copies of such a film, or

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        (iii)     in the case of a work of architecture in the form of a model for a building or in the case of a sculpture or work of craftsmanship, issues to the public copies of a graphic work representing, or of a photograph of, a derogatory treatment of the work;

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      (c)     in the case of a film, by a person who—

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        (i)     shows in public, broadcasts or includes in a cable programme service a derogatory treatment of the film, or

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        (ii)     issues to the public copies of a derogatory treatment of the film,

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      or who, along with the film, plays in public, broadcasts or includes in a cable programme service, issues to the public copies of, a derogatory treatment of the film sound-track.

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      (2)     Subsection (1)(b) does not apply to a work of architecture in the form of a building; but where the author of such a work is identified on the building and it is the subject of derogatory treatment, he or she has the right to require the identification to be removed.