Copyright, Designs and Patents Act, 1988. Chapter 48.

  • Great Britain.
Date:
1988
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Licence: Open Government Licence

Credit: Copyright, Designs and Patents Act, 1988. Chapter 48. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    PaRT I (4) For the purposes of this Part the place from which a broadcast is made is, in the case of a satellite transmission, the place from which the signals carrying the broadcast are transmitted to the satellite. (5) References in this Part to the reception of a broadcast include reception of a broadcast relayed by means of a telecommunications system. (6) Copyright does not subsist in a broadcast which infringes, or to the extent that it infringes, the copyright in another broadcast or in a cable programme. Cable 7.—(1) In this Part— rogrammes. C é : ‘ ee ‘cable programme” means any item included in a cable programme service; and “cable programme service” means a service which consists wholly or mainly in sending visual images, sounds or other information by means of a telecommunications system, otherwise than by wireless telegraphy, for reception— (a) at two or more places (whether for simultaneous reception or at different. times in response to requests by different users), or (b) for presentation to members of the public, and which is not, or so far as it is not, excepted by or under the following provisions of this section. (2) The following are excepted from the definition: of “cable programme service” — (a) aservice or part of a service of which it is an essential feature that while visual images, sounds or other information are being conveyed by the person providing the service there will or may be sent from each place of reception, by means of the same system or (as the case may be) the same part of it, information (other than signals sent for the operation or control of the service) for reception by the person providing the service or other persons receiving it; (b) a service run for the purposes of a business where— (i) no person except the person carrying on the business is concerned in the control of the apparatus comprised in the system, (ii) the visual images, sounds or other information are conveyed by the system solely for purposes internal to the running of the business and not by way of rendering a service or providing amenities for others, and (iii) the system is not connected to any other telecommunications system; ' (c) a service run by a single individual where— (i) all the apparatus comprised in the system is under his control, (ii) the visual images, sounds or other information conveyed by the system are conveyed solely for domestic purposes of his, and