Copyright and Related Rights (Amendment) Act 2007

Amendment of section 42 (rental and lending right) of Principal Act.

6.— Section 42 of the Principal Act is amended—

(a) in subsection (6)(b) by substituting “Subject to subsection (7), there” for “There”, and

(b) by inserting the following subsection after subsection (6):

“(7) The lending right in relation to a work does not apply at any time in a period during which a scheme for the remuneration of authors is in effect, pursuant to section 42A, in relation to works of a class in which that work is included, whether the author, or (in the case of a work of joint authorship) any of the authors, is a participant in that scheme or not.”.