Copyright and Related Rights (Amendment) Act 2007

Amendment of section 207 (rental and lending right of performer) of Principal Act.

11.— Section 207 of the Principal Act is amended—

(a) in subsection (2) by substituting “Subject to subsection (3A), a” for “A”,

(b) in subsection (3)(b) by substituting “Subject to subsection (3A), there” for “There”, and

(c) by inserting the following subsection after subsection (3):

“(3A) The lending right in relation to a recording 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 recording is included, whether the performer, or (in the case of a recording of a performance by a number of performers) any of the performers, is a participant in that scheme or not.”.