Copyright and Related Rights Act, 2000

Reception and retransmission of broadcasts in cable programmes services.

103.—(1) This section applies where a broadcast made from a place in the State is, by reception and immediate retransmission, without alteration, included in a cable programme service.

(2) The copyright in a broadcast to which this section applies is not infringed where—

(a) the inclusion is pursuant to a statutory requirement, or

(b) the broadcast is made for reception in the area in which the cable programme service is provided and it is not a satellite transmission or an encrypted transmission.

(3) Without prejudice to the generality of subsection (4), the copyright in a work included in the broadcast is not infringed where—

(a) the inclusion is pursuant to a statutory requirement, or

(b) the broadcast is made for reception in the area in which the cable programme service is provided and it is not a satellite transmission or an encrypted transmission.

(4) Where the making of a broadcast is an infringement of the copyright in a work included in the broadcast, the fact that the broadcast was retransmitted as a programme in a cable programme service shall be taken into account in assessing the damages for that infringement.