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COPYRIGHT ACT 1968 - SECT 109 Copyright in published sound recording not infringed by broadcast in certain circumstances

COPYRIGHT ACT 1968 - SECT 109

Copyright in published sound recording not infringed by broadcast in certain circumstances

  (1)   Subject to this section, the copyright in a published sound recording is not infringed by the making of a broadcast (other than a broadcast transmitted for a fee payable to the person who made the broadcast) of that recording if:

  (a)   where there is no order of the Tribunal in force under section   152 applying to the maker of that broadcast in relation to the time when that broadcast was made--the maker of that broadcast has given an undertaking in writing to the person who is the owner of the copyright in that recording to pay to the owner such amounts (if any) as may be specified in, or determined in accordance with, an order of the Tribunal made under that section in respect of the broadcasting by the maker, during a period within which that broadcast was made, of published sound recordings in which the copyrights are owned by that person and which include that recording; or

  (b)   where there is an order of the Tribunal in force under that section applying to the maker of that broadcast in relation to the time when that broadcast was made:

  (i)   the copyright in that recording is owned by a person who is specified in the order as one of the persons among whom the amount specified in, or determined in accordance with, the order is to be divided and the maker of the broadcast makes payments to the person in accordance with the order; or

  (ii)   the copyright in that recording is owned by a person who is not so specified in the order.

  (2)   The last preceding subsection does not apply in relation to a broadcast of a sound recording if the broadcast was made in accordance with an agreement between the maker of the broadcast and the owner of the copyright in the recording.

  (3)   Subsection   (1) does not apply in relation to a broadcast of a sound recording that has not been published in Australia if the broadcast was made before the expiration of the prescribed period after the date of the first publication of the recording.

  (4)   Regulations prescribing a period for the purposes of the last preceding subsection may prescribe different periods in relation to different classes of sound recordings.

  (5)   Subsection   (1) does not apply in relation to a broadcast of a sound recording that has not been published in Australia if:

  (a)   the recording consists of, or includes, a musical work in which copyright subsists;

  (b)   the musical work was made for the purpose of being performed, or has been performed, in association with a dramatic work or has been included in a cinematograph film; and

  (c)   records of the musical work have not been supplied (whether by sale or otherwise) to the public in Australia.

  (6)   For the purposes of paragraph   (5)(c), a supplying of records of a musical work shall be disregarded if the supplying was done otherwise than by, or with the licence of, the owner of the copyright in the work.