Section 145 — Death — bequest of manuscript, etc., includes any copyright therein

(1)This section applies to a bequest (whether specific or general) if —

(a)the testator dies on or after 10 April 1987;

(b)the bequest entitles a person, beneficially or otherwise, to —

(i)the manuscript of a literary, dramatic or musical work; or

(ii)an artistic work; and

(c)the work is not published during the testator’s lifetime.

(2)Subject to any contrary intention in the testator’s will, the bequest is to be treated as including a bequest of any copyright in the work insofar as the testator owned the copyright immediately before his or her death.

(3)In this section, “manuscript”, in relation to an authorial work, means an original document (whether written by hand or not) embodying the work.