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Copyright Act 1968
247Contributions to periodicals
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247 Contributions to periodicals
(a) a work to which this Division applies (in this section referred to as the relevant work) consists of an essay, article or item forming part of, and first published in, a review, magazine or other periodical or work of a like nature; and
(b) immediately before the commencement of this Act, a right of publishing the relevant work in a separate form subsisted by virtue of the note to the First Schedule to the Copyright Act, 1911;
copyright subsisting in the relevant work by virtue of this Act is subject to that right of publishing the relevant work in a separate form.