Saving provisions – articles made in, or imported into, the United Kingdom
3.—(1) The amendments to the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988(1) (“the 1988 Act”) made by section 74 of the Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Act 2013 do not apply in relation to—
(a)a copy of an artistic work(2) made in the United Kingdom before the commencement date where the making of the copy does not by virtue of section 52 of the 1988 Act infringe copyright in the artistic work; or
(b)a copy of an artistic work imported into the United Kingdom before the commencement date where at the date of its importation its making in the United Kingdom would not by virtue of section 52 of the 1988 Act have constituted an infringement of copyright in the artistic work or a breach of an exclusive licence agreement relating to that work.
(2) Expressions used in this article have the same meaning as in the 1988 Act.
See section 4 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 for the meaning of “artistic work”.