Assignments and licences

(1) Subject to this section, copyright in a work shall be transmissible by assignment, by testamentary disposition or by operation of law, as personal or movable property. (2) An assignment of copyright may be partial, that is, limited so as to apply, (a) to one or more, but not all, of the things which, by virtue of this Act, the owner of the copyright has the exclusive right to do; (b) to part, but not the whole, of the period for which the copyright is to subsist. 45 (3) No assignment of copyright (whether total or partial) shall have effect unless it is in writing signed by or on behalf of the assignor. (4) A licence granted by a copyright owner is binding upon every successor in title to his interest in the copyright, except a purchaser in good faith for valuable consideration and without notice (actual or constructive) of the licence or a person deriving title from such a purchaser; and references in this Act to doing anything with, or without, the licence of the copyright owner shall be construed accordingly.