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COPYRIGHT ACT 1968 - SECT 135ZZS Request for payment of equitable remuneration

COPYRIGHT ACT 1968 - SECT 135ZZS

Request for payment of equitable remuneration

  (1)   Subject to this section, where a remuneration notice is or has been in force, the collecting society to which the notice was given may, by notice in writing given to the relevant retransmitter, request the retransmitter to pay to the society, within a reasonable time after the date of the notice, the amount of equitable remuneration specified in the notice, being an amount payable under section   135ZZM for retransmissions made by, or on behalf of, the retransmitter while the remuneration notice is or was in force.

  (2)   If an amount specified in a request under subsection   (1) is not paid in accordance with the request, it may be recovered from the retransmitter by the collecting society in the Federal Court of Australia or any other court of competent jurisdiction as a debt due to the society.