Copyright Ordinance, 1962 — section 53

53. Provisions as to works of certain international organizations..—(1) The 1[Federal Government] may, by notification in the official Gazette, declare that this section shall apply to such organizations as may be specified therein of which one or more sovereign powers or the Government or Governments thereof are members.

(2)Where

(a)any work is made or first published by or under the direction or control of any organization to which this section applies; and

(b)there would, apart from this section, be no copyright in the work in Pakistan at the time of the making or, as the case may be, of the first publication thereof; and

(c)either

(i)the work is published as aforesaid in pursuance of an agreement in that behalf with the author, being an agreement which does not reserve to the author the copyright, if any, in the work, or

(ii)under section 13 any copyright in the work would belong to the organization; there shall subsist copyright in the work throughout Pakistan 1[,except as respects its reprint, translation, adaptation or publication, by or under the authority of the Federal Government, as text-book for the purposes of teaching, study or research in educational institutions.]

(3)Any organization to which this section applies which at the material time had not the legal capacity of a body corporate shall have, and be deemed at all material times to have had, the legal capacity of a body corporate for the purpose of holding, dealing with, and enforcing copyright and in connection with all legal proceedings relating to copyright.