
1 
This Order may be cited as the Copyright (Industrial Process and Excluded Articles) (No. 2) Order 1989 and shall come into force on 1st August 1989.
2 
An article is to be regarded for the purposes of section 52 of the Act (limitation of copyright protection for design derived from artistic work) as made by an industrial process if—
(a) it is one of more than fifty articles which—
(i) all fall to be treated for the purposes of Part I of the Act as copies of a particular artistic work, but
(ii) do not all together constitute a single set of articles as defined in section 44(1) of the Registered Designs Act 1949; or
(b) it consists of goods manufactured in lengths or pieces, not being hand-made goods.
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(1) There are excluded from the operation of section 52 of the Act—
(a) works of sculpture, other than casts or models used or intended to be used as models or patterns to be multiplied by any industrial process;
(b) wall plaques, medals and medallions; and
(c) printed matter primarily of a literary or artistic character, including book jackets, calendars, certificates, coupons, dress-making patterns, greetings cards, labels, leaflets, maps, plans, playing cards, postcards, stamps, trade advertisements, trade forms and cards, transfers and similar articles.
(2) Nothing in article 2 of this Order shall be taken to limit the meaning of “industrial process” in paragraph (1)(a) of this article.
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The Copyright (Industrial Designs) Rules 1957 and the Copyright (Industrial Process and Excluded Articles) Order 1989 are hereby revoked.
Eric Forth
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State,
Department of Trade and Industry
26th June 1989