PART VIII
                         MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS

   56. Assignments and licences in respect of copyright---(1) Subject to
 the provisions of this section, copyright shall be transmissible by
 assignment, by testamentary disposition, or by operation of law, as
 personal or movable property.

   (2) An assignment of copyright may be limited in any of the following
 ways, or in any combination of 2 or more of those ways, that is to
 say,---
   (a) So as to apply to one or more, but not all, of the classes of acts
         which by virtue of this Act the owner of the copyright has the
         exclusive right to do (including any one or more classes of acts
         not separately designated in this Act as being restricted by the
         copyright, but falling within any of the classes of acts so
         designated):
   (b) So as to apply to any one or more, but not all, of the countries
         in relation to which the owner of the copyright has by virtue of
         this Act that exclusive right:
   (c) So as to apply to part, but not the whole of the period for which
         the copyright is to subsist,---

 and references in this Act to a partial assignment are references to an
 assignment so limited.

   (3) No assignment of copyright (whether total or partial) shall have
 effect unless it is in writing signed by or on behalf of the assignor.

   (4) Subject to the provisions of this Act, a licence granted in
 respect of any copyright by the person who, in relation to the matters
 to which the licence relates, is the owner of the copyright shall be
 binding upon every successor in title to his interest in the copyright,
 except a purchaser in good faith for valuable consideration and without
 notice (actual or constructive) of the licence or a person deriving
 title from such a purchaser; and references in this Act, in relation to
 any copyright, to the doing of anything with, or (as the case may be)
 without, the licence of the owner of the copyright shall be construed
 accordingly.
     Cf. Copyright Act 1956, s. 36 (U.K); 1913, No. 4, s. 8 (2)