P.U.(A) 314/90 COPYRIGHT (APPLICATION TO OTHER COUNTRIES) REGULATIONS 1990
Regulation 2. Interpretation.
"at the material time" means—
(a)in relation to, or in relation to the application of the Act in respect of, an unpublished work, at the time when the work was made; and
(b) in relation to, or in relation to the application of the Act in respect of, a published work, at the time when the work was first published;
"Berne Convention" means the Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works 1984 and shall include all acts, protocols and revision thereto;
"country of origin" means—
(a) in the case of a published work, if the country of first publication is one of the specified countries, that country;
(b) in the case of a work first published in one of the specified countries and a country which is not a member of the Berne Convention, the former country;
(c) in the case of a work which is first published in several of the specified countries, the country whose laws give the shortest term of protection in such a work;
(d)in the case of a work which is unpublished or which is first published only in a country which is not a member of the Berne Convention, any of the specified countries of which the author is a citizen or resident at the material time; and
"specified countries" means the countries which are members of the Berne Convention.
