Commonwealth Numbered Acts

Copyright Amendment Act 1984 No. 43 of 1984 - SECT 7

7. (1) Subject to this section, the amendments made by this Act extend to
works and other subject matter made before the commencement of this Act.

(2) Where, by virtue only of the amendments made by this Act, copyright
subsists in a work that was made before the commencement of this Act-

   (a)  nothing done before the commencement of this Act shall be taken to
        constitute an infringement of that copyright;

   (b)  nothing done in relation to the work before the commencement of this
        Act shall be taken to constitute an offence against section 132 of the
        Principal Act; and

   (c)  without limiting the generality of paragraph (a), a reproduction of
        the work, or of an adaptation of the work, made in, or imported into,
        Australia before the commencement of this Act shall not be taken to be
        an infringing copy of the work.

(3) For the purposes of this section, a work the making of which extended over
a period shall be deemed not to have been made before the commencement of this
Act unless the making of it was completed before the commencement of this Act.