Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

COPYRIGHT ACT 1968 - SECT 132AM

Summary offence

             (1)  A person commits an offence if:

                     (a)  the person, by any means, publishes, or causes to be published, an advertisement for the supply in Australia of a copy (whether from within or outside Australia) of a work or other subject‑matter; and

                     (b)  the copy is, or will be, an infringing copy.

Penalty:  30 penalty units or imprisonment for 6 months, or both.

Location of supply of copy by communication resulting in creation of copy

             (2)  For the purposes of this section, a communication of a work or other subject‑matter that, when received and recorded, will result in the creation of a copy of the work or other subject‑matter is taken to constitute the supply of a copy of the work or other subject‑matter at the place where the copy will be created.