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COPYRIGHT ACT 1968 - SECT 130C

Acts relating to imported copies of electronic literary or music items

  (1)   In an action by a plaintiff for infringement of copyright described in section   37, 38, 102 or 103:

  (a)   relating to the plaintiff's copyright in a work, or in a published edition of a work, that is, or is part of, an electronic literary or music item; and

  (b)   involving an article that has embodied in it a copy of the electronic literary or music item;

it must be presumed, unless the defendant proves otherwise, that the copy is not a non - infringing copy so far as it relates to the plaintiff's copyright.

Note 1:   Sections   37 and 38 deal with infringement of copyright in a work by commercial importation and dealings involving articles.

Note 2:   Sections   102 and 103 deal with infringement of copyright in a published edition of a work (among other things) by commercial importation and dealings involving articles.

  (2)   The definition of article in sections   38 and 103 does not affect this section.


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