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 Use of notes or recordings of spoken words in certain cases. Public reading or recitation. Abstracts of scientific or technical articles. (3) In relation to a work of joint authorship— (a) the reference in subsection (1) to its being possible to ascertain the identity of the author shall be construed as a reference to its being possible to ascertain the identity of any of the authors, and (b) the reference in subsection (1)(b)(ii) to the author having died shall be construed as a reference to all the authors having died. 58.—(1) Where a record of spoken words is made, in writing or otherwise, for the purpose— (a) of reporting current events, or (b) of broadcasting or including in a cable programme service the whole or part of the work, it is not an infringement of any copyright in the words as a literary work to use the record or material taken from it (or to copy the record, or any such material, and use the copy) for that purpose, provided the following conditions are met. (2) The conditions are that— (a) the record is a direct record of the spoken words and is not taken from a previous record or from a broadcast or cable programme; (b) the making of the record was not prohibited by the speaker and, where copyright already subsisted in the work, did not infringe copyright; (c) the use made of the record or material taken from it is not of a kind prohibited by or on behalf of the speaker or copyright owner before the record was made; and (d) the use is by or with the authority of a person who is lawfully in possession of the record. 59.—(1) The reading or recitation in public by one person of a reasonable extract from a published literary or dramatic work does not infringe any copyright in the work if it is accompanied by a sufficient acknowledgement. (2) Copyright in a work is not infringed by the making of a sound recording, or the broadcasting or inclusion in a cable programme service, of a reading or recitation which by virtue of subsection (1) does not infringe copyright in the work, provided that the recording, broadcast or cable programme consists mainly of material in relation to which it is not necessary to rely on that subsection. 60.—(1) Where an article.on a scientific or technical subject is published in a periodical accompanied by an abstract indicating the contents of the article, it is not an infringement of copyright in the abstract, or in the article, to copy the abstract or issue copies of it to the public. (2) This section does not apply if or to the extent that there is a licensing scheme certified for the purposes of this section under section 143 providing for the grant of licences.