Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988

[F1205EExceptions to rightU.K.

(1)The right conferred by section 205C (right to be identified as performer) is subject to the following exceptions.

(2)The right does not apply where it is not reasonably practicable to identify the performer (or, where identification of a group is permitted by virtue of section 205C(3), the group).

(3)The right does not apply in relation to any performance given for the purposes of reporting current events.

(4)The right does not apply in relation to any performance given for the purposes of advertising any goods or services.

(5)The right is not infringed by an act which by virtue of any of the following provisions of Schedule 2 would not infringe any of the rights conferred by Chapter 2—

(a)paragraph 2(1A) (news reporting);

(b)paragraph 3 (incidental inclusion of a performance or recording);

(c)paragraph 4(2) (things done for the purposes of examination);

(d)paragraph 8 (parliamentary and judicial proceedings);

(e)paragraph 9 (Royal Commissions and statutory inquiries).]

Textual Amendments

F1Ss. 205C-205N and cross-headings inserted (1.2 2006) by The Performances (Moral Rights, etc.) Regulations 2006 (S.I. 2006/18), art. 6 (with reg. 8) (which inserted provisions accordingly become Pt. 2 Ch. 3 (1.2.2006) by virtue of S.I. 2006/18, art. 4(6) (with reg. 8))