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The Copyright and Related Rights Regulations 2003

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  1. Introductory Text

  2. PART 1 INTRODUCTORY PROVISIONS

    1. 1.Citation and commencement

    2. 2.Consequential amendments and repeals

  3. PART 2 AMENDMENTS OF THE COPYRIGHT, DESIGNS AND PATENTS ACT 1988

    1. 3.Introductory

    2. Broadcasts

      1. 4.Provisions relating to broadcasts

      2. 5.Other amendments relating to broadcasts

    3. Acts restricted by copyright

      1. 6.Restricted act: communication to the public of the work

    4. Making available right

      1. 7.Making available right for performers

    5. Acts permitted in relation to copyright works and rights in performances

      1. 8.Making temporary copies 

      2. 9.Amendment of provision relating to research and private study

      3. 10.Amendment of provisions relating to criticism, review and news reporting

      4. 11.Amendment of provisions relating to things done for the purposes of instruction or examination

      5. 12.Amendment of provisions relating to recordings by educational establishments of broadcasts

      6. 13.Amendment of provision relating to reprographic copying by educational establishments

      7. 14.Amendment of provisions relating to copying by librarians

      8. 15.Observing, studying and testing of computer programs

      9. 16.Amendment of provision relating to recordings of folksongs

      10. 17.Amendment of provision relating to the advertisement of sale of artistic work

      11. 18.Amendment of provisions relating to the playing of sound recordings for the purposes of club, society &c

      12. 19.Provisions relating to recording for the purposes of time-shifting

      13. 20.Provisions relating to photographs of broadcasts

      14. 21.Amendment of provisions on public showing or playing of broadcast

      15. 22.Amendment of provisions on the reception and re-transmission of broadcasts

      16. 23.Amendment of the provisions on the sub-titling of copies of broadcasts

    6. Technical measures and rights management information

      1. 24.Circumvention of protection measures

      2. 25.Rights management information

    7. Sanctions and remedies

      1. 26.New criminal offences

      2. 27.Injunctions against service providers

      3. 28.Rights and remedies of a non-exclusive licensee

    8. Duration

      1. 29.Duration of copyright in sound recordings

  4. PART 3 SAVINGS AND TRANSITIONAL PROVISIONS

    1. General provisions

      1. 30.Introductory

      2. 31.General rules

      3. 32.Savings for certain existing agreements

    2. Special provisions

      1. 33.Permitted acts

      2. 34.Performers' rights: making available to the public

      3. 35.Exercise of rights in relation to performances

      4. 36.Ownership of extended copyright in sound recordings

      5. 37.Prospective ownership of extended copyright in sound recordings

      6. 38.Extended copyright in sound recordings: existing licences, agreements, etc.

      7. 39.Duration of copyright in sound recordings: general saving

      8. 40.Sanctions and remedies

  5. Signature

    1. SCHEDULE 1

      CONSEQUENTIAL AMENDMENTS

      1. PART 1 AMENDMENTS OF THE COPYRIGHT, DESIGNS AND PATENTS ACT 1988

        1. 1.The Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 shall be amended...

        2. 2.(1) In the headings of section 69 and paragraph 17...

        3. 3.(1) In each of the following provisions—

        4. 4.Amendments relating to “communication to the public” etc

        5. 5.In each of the following provisions— (a) section 24(2);

        6. 6.(1) In each of the following provisions—

        7. 7.In section 151A(1)(a) for the words from “broadcasting” to “service”...

        8. 8.(1) In each of the following provisions—

        9. 9.(1) In each of the following provisions—

        10. 10.(1) In each of the following provisions—

        11. 11.In each of the following provisions— (a) section 163(1A);

        12. 12.In each of the following provisions— (a) section 58(1)(b);

        13. 13.(1) In each of the following provisions—

        14. 14.In section 62(2)(c) for the words from “broadcasting” to “service”...

        15. 15.(1) In section 135A(5), before the definition of “needletime”, there...

        16. 16.Schedule 1 shall be amended as follows—

        17. 17.In paragraph 16 of Schedule 2A— (a) in sub-paragraph (1),...

        18. 18.(1) In section 79(3) for the words from “vested” to...

      2. PART 2 AMENDMENTS OF OTHER ACTS

        1. 19.Section 92 of the Medicines Act 1968 shall be amended...

        2. 20.In section 4(3) of the Olympic Symbol etc (Protection) Act...

        3. 21.Section 137 of the Broadcasting Act 1996 shall be amended...

        4. 22.The Copyright (Visually Impaired Persons) Act 2002 shall be amended...

        5. 23.In paragraph 92(1) of Schedule 17 of the Communications Act...

      3. PART 3 AMENDMENTS OF INSTRUMENTS

        1. 24.In article 3(2)(a) of the Copyright (Recording of Folksongs for...

        2. 25.In Form 15 found in Schedule 3 to the Copyright...

        3. 26.The Copyright (Librarians and Archivists) (Copying of Copyright Material) Regulations...

        4. 27.Regulation 16(2) of the Copyright and Related Rights Regulations 1996...

    2. SCHEDULE 2

      REPEAL

      1. ENACTMENTS

      2. INSTRUMENTS

    3. SCHEDULE 3

      NEW SCHEDULE 5A TO THE COPYRIGHT, DESIGNS AND PATENTS ACT 1988

      1.   SCHEDULE 5A PERMITTED ACTS TO WHICH SECTION 296ZE APPLIES...

  6. Explanatory Note

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