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COPYRIGHT ACT 1968 - SECT 113A Agents may act on behalf of groups of performers

COPYRIGHT ACT 1968 - SECT 113A

Agents may act on behalf of groups of performers

  (1)   This section applies in respect of all members of a group of performers who have an interest in the copyright in a sound recording of a live performance.

  (2)   All members of the group are taken to have granted a licence or permission (however described) to a person:

  (a)   to do an act comprised in the copyright; or

  (b)   to do any other act in relation to the copyright;

if an agent of the group, acting within the scope of his or her actual or apparent authority, has granted a licence or permission to the person to do the act.

Note:   The person may still need to obtain the licence or permission of other owners of the copyright before doing the act.