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In determining what is reasonable on a reference or application under this Chapter relating to a licensing scheme or licence, the Copyright Tribunal shall have regard to—
(a)the availability of other schemes, or the granting of other licences, to other persons in similar circumstances, and
(b)the terms of those schemes or licences,
and shall exercise its powers so as to secure that there is no unreasonable discrimination between licensees, or prospective licensees, under the scheme or licence to which the reference or application relates and licensees under other schemes operated by, or other licences granted by, the same person.
Where a reference or application is made to the Copyright Tribunal under this Chapter relating to the licensing of reprographic copying of published literary, dramatic, musical or artistic works, or the typographical arrangement of published editions, the Tribunal shall have regard to—
(a)the extent to which published editions of the works in question are otherwise available,
(b)the proportion of the work to be copied, and
(c)the nature of the use to which the copies are likely to be put.
(1)This section applies to references or applications under this Chapter relating to licences for the recording by or on behalf of educational establishments of broadcasts F2. . . which include copyright works, or the making of copies of such recordings, for educational purposes.
(2)The Copyright Tribunal shall, in considering what charges (if any) should be paid for a licence, have regard to the extent to which the owners of copyright in the works included in the broadcast F2. . . have already received, or are entitled to receive, payment in respect of their inclusion.
Textual Amendments
F1Words in s. 131 heading repealed (31.10.2003) by The Copyright and Related Rights Regulations 2003 (S.I. 2003/2498), reg. 2(2), Sch. 2 (with regs. 31-40)
F2Words in s. 131(1)(2) repealed (31.10.2003) by The Copyright and Related Rights Regulations 2003 (S.I. 2003/2498), reg. 2(2), Sch. 2 (with regs. 31-40)
(1)This section applies to references or applications under this Chapter in respect of licences relating to sound recordings, films [F3or broadcasts] which include, or are to include, any entertainment or other event.
(2)The Copyright Tribunal shall have regard to any conditions imposed by the promoters of the entertainment or other event; and, in particular, the Tribunal shall not hold a refusal or failure to grant a licence to be unreasonable if it could not have been granted consistently with those conditions.
(3)Nothing in this section shall require the Tribunal to have regard to any such conditions in so far as they—
(a)purport to regulate the charges to be imposed in respect of the grant of licences, or
(b)relate to payments to be made to the promoters of any event in consideration of the grant of facilities for making the recording, film [F4or broadcast].
Textual Amendments
F3Words in s. 132(1) substituted (31.10.2003) by The Copyright and Related Rights Regulations 2003 (S.I. 2003/2498), reg. 2(1), Sch. 3 para. 3(2)(a) (with regs. 31-40)
F4Words in s. 132(3)(b) substituted (31.10.2003) by The Copyright and Related Rights Regulations 2003 (S.I. 2003/2498), reg. 2(1), Sch. 1 para. 3(1)(j) (with regs. 31-40)
F5 [( 1 )In considering what charges should be paid for a licence—
(a)on a reference or application under this Chapter relating to licences for the rental or lending of copies of a work, or
(b)on an application under section 142 (royalty or other sum payable for lending of certain works), the Copyright Tribunal shall take into account any reasonable payments which the owner of the copyright in the work is liable to make in consequence of the granting of the licence, or of the acts authorised by the licence, to owners of copyright in works included in that work.]
(2)On any reference or application under this Chapter relating to licensing in respect of the copyright in sound recordings, films [F6or broadcasts], the Copyright Tribunal shall take into account, in considering what charges should be paid for a licence, any reasonable payments which the copyright owner is liable to make in consequence of the granting of the licence, or of the acts authorised by the licence, in respect of any performance included in the recording, film [F7or broadcast].
Textual Amendments
F5S. 133(1) substituted (1.12.1996) by S.I. 1996/2967, reg. 13(1) (with Pt. III)
F6Words in s. 133(2) substituted (31.10.2003) by The Copyright and Related Rights Regulations 2003 (S.I. 2003/2498), reg. 2(1), Sch. 3 para. 3(2)(b) (with regs. 31-40)
F7Words in s. 133(2) substituted (31.10.2003) by The Copyright and Related Rights Regulations 2003 (S.I. 2003/2498), reg. 2(1), Sch. 3 para. 3(1)(k) (with regs. 31-40)
(1)F8... this section applies to references or applications under this Chapter relating to licences to include in a broadcast F9. . . —
(a)literary, dramatic, musical or artistic works, or,
(b)sound recordings or films,
where one broadcast F9. . . (“the first transmission”) is, by reception and immediate re-transmission, to be further broadcast F9. . . (“the further transmission”).
(2)So far as the further transmission is to the same area as the first transmission, the Copyright Tribunal shall, in considering what charges (if any) should be paid for licences for either transmission, have regard to the extent to which the copyright owner has already received, or is entitled to receive, payment for the other transmission which adequately remunerates him in respect of transmissions to that area.
(3)So far as the further transmission is to an area outside that to which the first transmission was made, the Tribunal shall F9. . . leave the further transmission out of account in considering what charges (if any) should be paid for licences for the first transmission.
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F11(4). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Textual Amendments
F8Words in s. 134(1) repealed (31.7.2017) by Digital Economy Act 2017 (c. 30), ss. 34(2)(a)(i), 118(6); S.I. 2017/765, reg. 2(n)
F9Words in s. 134(1)(3) repealed (31.10.2003) by The Copyright and Related Rights Regulations 2003 (S.I. 2003/2498), reg. 2(2), Sch. 2 (with regs. 31-40)
F10S. 134(3A) repealed (31.7.2017) by Digital Economy Act 2017 (c. 30), ss. 34(2)(a)(i), 118(6); S.I. 2017/765, reg. 2(n)
F11S. 134(4) repealed by Broadcasting Act 1990 (c. 42, SIF 96), s. 203(3), Sch. 21
The mention in sections 129 to 134 of specific matters to which the Copyright Tribunal is to have regard in certain classes of case does not affect the Tribunal’s general obligation in any case to have regard to all relevant considerations.
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