s 169 Presumptions as to anonymous or pseudonymous authorial work
169.—(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.