Copyright and Other Intellectual Property Law Provisions Act 2019

Amendment of section 375 of Principal Act

36. Section 375 of the Principal Act is amended—

(a) by the substitution of the following subsection for subsection (1):

“(1) (a) The rightsowner or exclusive licensee has the same rights in respect of an infringement of copyright or related rights notwithstanding that he or she is not the person issuing to the public copies of, or communicating, the work to the public.

(b) A person lawfully issuing to the public copies of, or lawfully communicating to the public, the work has the same rights as the rightsowner has in respect of an infringement of copyright.”,

and

(b) in subsection (2), by the substitution of “, embedded in, or appear in connection with, or are otherwise associated with or incorporated in,” for “or appear in connection with”.