Section 169 — Presumptions as to anonymous or pseudonymous authorial work

(1)This section applies if —

(a)an authorial work is published;

(b)the publication is anonymous or is alleged by the claimant to be pseudonymous; and

(c)it is not proved that the work has an identified author.

(2)The work is presumed to be original.

(3)If the claimant alleges that a specified publication is the first publication of the work and that the first publication took place in a specified country and on a specified date —

(a)the specified publication is presumed to be the first publication of the work; and

(b)the first publication of the work is presumed to have taken place in the specified country and on the specified date.