Assignment of Copyright and Trade Name in a Newspaper by a Limited Company to the Trustee of an Intended Association

Updated atMarch 2010

This deed of assignment made this ………… day of …………… 2007 between ………………, a company registered under the Companies Act 1956 having its registered office at ………………… (hereinafter called the assignor which expression shall where the subject or context allows or admits of be deemed to include its successors and assigns) of the one part and Mr. …………… son of…………residing at…………(hereinafter called the assignee which term shall where the subject or context allows or admits of be deemed to include his heirs and successors and assigns and persons being members of the intended association) of the other part.

Whereas the assignor is the sole proprietor and owner of the newspaper known as ……… for over ……… years free from all encumbrances with all rights hereby assigned which are valid and subsisting.

Now this deed of assignment witnesseth as follows:

  1. In consideration of a sum of Rs. …………… paid by the assignee to the assignor (the receipt whereof the assignor doth hereby admit, acknowledge and confirm) the assignor as beneficial owner of the copyright in the said newspaper do hereby grant, convey, sell, transfer, assign, assure the same unto and to the use of the assignee absolutely and for ever and other right, title and interest and claim therein and all goodwill, benefits and other advantages and connections of the newspapers throughout the world together with all contracts and orders outstanding on this day with full and absolute right to print, reproduce, multiply, circulate and sell the same or any translation thereof to the intent and with the object that the assignee shall own the said newspaper as trustee for the members of the intended association and for the benefit of all its members.

  2. The assignor doth hereby covenant with the assignee and agree as follows:

(i) Notwithstanding any act, deed or thing whatsoever heretofore done or executed, performed or knowingly suffered to the contrary, the assignor had good right...

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