Commonwealth Numbered Acts

COPYRIGHT AMENDMENT ACT 1980 No. 154 of 1980 - SECT 6

6. After section 39 of the Principal Act the following section is inserted:
Infringing copies made on machines installed in libraries and archives



"39A. Where-

   (a)  a person makes an infringing copy of, or of part of, a work on a
        machine for the making, by reprographic reproduction, of copies of
        documents, being a machine installed by or with the approval of the
        body administering a library or archives on the premises of the
        library or archives, or outside those premises for the convenience of
        persons using the library or archives; and

   (b)  there is affixed to, or in close proximity to, the machine, in a place
        readily visible to persons using the machine, a notice of the
        prescribed dimensions and in accordance with the prescribed form,
        neither the body administering the library or archives nor the officer
        in charge of the library or archives shall be taken to have authorized
        the making of the infringing copy by reason only that the copy was
        made on that machine.".