Cap 528 s 77 Incidental recording for purposes of broadcast or cable programme (COPYRIGHT ORDINANCE)

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Chapter:	528	Title:	COPYRIGHT ORDINANCE	Gazette Number:
Section:	77	Heading:	Incidental recording for purposes of broadcast or cable programme	Version Date:	30/06/1997

Miscellaneous: Broadcasts and cable programmes

(1) This section applies where by virtue of a licence or assignment of copyright a person is authorized to broadcast or include in a cable programme service-

(a) a literary, dramatic or musical work, or an adaptation of such a work;

(b) an artistic work; or

(2) He is by virtue of this section to be treated as licensed by the owner of the copyright in the work to do or authorize any of the following for the purposes of the broadcast or cable programme-

(a) in the case of a literary, dramatic or musical work, or an adaptation of such a work, to make a sound recording or film of the work or adaptation;

(b) in the case of an artistic work, to take a photograph or make a film of the work;

(3) That licence is subject to the condition that the sound recording, film, photograph or copy in question-

(a) must not be used for any other purposes;

(b) must be destroyed within 3 months of being first used for broadcasting the work or, as the case may be, including it in a cable programme service.

(4) A sound recording, film, photograph or copy made in accordance with this section is treated as an infringing copy-

(a) for the purposes of any use in breach of the condition mentioned in subsection (3)(a); and

(b) for all purposes after that condition or the condition mentioned in subsection (3)(b) is broken.

[cf. 1988 c. 48 s. 68 U.K.]