COPYRIGHT ACT 1968 - SECT 195CE Meaning of National Library material

COPYRIGHT ACT 1968 - SECT 195CE

    A literary, dramatic, musical or artistic work, or an edition of such a work, (whether in an electronic form or otherwise) is National Library material if:

  (a)   the work or edition is:

  (i)   a website, web page, web file, book, periodical, newspaper, pamphlet, sheet of music, map, plan, chart or table; or

  (ii)   prescribed by the National Library Minister for the purposes of this subparagraph; and

  (b)   copyright subsists in the work or edition under this Act; and

  (c)   the work or edition is not primarily audio - visual; and

  (d)   in the case of an edition:

  (i)   the edition contains additions or alterations in the text or other reading matter, illustrations, drawings, engravings, photographs or audio - visual elements; and

  (ii)   the content of at least one of those additions or alterations was not contained in any earlier edition; and

  (e)   the work or edition is not prescribed by the National Library Minister for the purposes of this paragraph.

Note:   The same work in hardcopy form and an electronic form is the same National Library material.