Licensing schemes and licensing bodies

(1) For the purposes of this Act, (a) “copyright licence” means a licence to do, or authorise the doing of, any of the acts restricted by copyright in relation to works of more than one author; (b) “licensing body” means a society or other organisation which has as its main object, or one of its main objects, the negotiation or granting, either as owner or prospective owner of copyright or as agent for him, of copyright licences, and whose objects include the granting of licences covering works of more than one author; (c) “licensing scheme” means a scheme operated by a licensing body setting out, (i) the classes of case in which the licensing body, or the persons on whose behalf it acts, is willing to grant copyright licenses; and (ii) the terms on which licences would be granted in those classes of case, and for this purpose a “scheme” includes anything in the nature of a scheme, whether described as a scheme or as a tariff or by any other name. (2) References in this Part to licences or licensing schemes covering works of more than one author do not include licences or schemes covering only, 95 (a) a single collective work or collective works of which the authors are the same; or (b) works made by, or by employees of or commissioned by, a single individual, firm, company or group of companies. (3) For the purpose of subsection (2) (b) of this section, “group” in relation to a company means that company and, (a) any other company which is its holding company or subsidiary; (b) any other company which is a subsidiary of the holding company; (c) any company which directly or indirectly controls or is controlled by any company referred to in paragraph (a) or (b)of this subsection; and (d) any company which is controlled by a person who directly or indirectly controls a company referred to in paragraph (a), (b) or (c) of this subsection.