COPYRIGHT ACT 1968 - SECT 44F Importation and sale etc. of copies of electronic literary or music items

COPYRIGHT ACT 1968 - SECT 44F

  (1)   The copyright in a work:

  (a)   that is, or is part of, an electronic literary or music item; and

  (b)   that has been published in Australia or a qualifying country;

is not infringed by a person who:

  (c)   imports into Australia an article that has embodied in it a non - infringing copy of the electronic literary or music item; or

  (d)   does an act mentioned in section   38 involving an article that has embodied in it a non - infringing copy of the electronic literary or music item and that has been imported into Australia by anyone.

Note:   Section   130C deals with the burden of proof a defendant bears in a civil action for infringement of copyright.

  (2)   The definition of article in section   38 does not affect this section.