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COPYRIGHT ACT 1968 - SECT 184

Application of Act to countries other than Australia

  (1)   Subject to this section, the regulations may make provision applying any of the provisions of this Act (other than those of Part   XIA) specified in the regulations, in relation to a country (other than Australia) so specified, in any one or more of the following ways:

  (a)   so that the provisions apply in relation to literary, dramatic, musical or artistic works or editions first published, or sound recordings or cinematograph films made or first published, in that country in like manner as those provisions apply in relation to literary, dramatic, musical or artistic works or editions first published, or sound recordings or cinematograph films made or first published, in Australia;

  (b)   so that the provisions apply in relation to artistic works that are buildings situated in that country or are attached to, or form part of, buildings situated in that country in like manner as those provisions apply in relation to artistic works that are buildings situated in Australia or are attached to, or form part of, buildings situated in Australia;

  (c)   so that the provisions apply in relation to persons who, at a material time, are citizens or nationals of that country in like manner as those provisions apply in relation to persons who, at such a time, are Australian citizens;

  (d)   so that the provisions apply in relation to persons who, at a material time, are resident in that country in like manner as those provisions apply in relation to persons who, at such a time, are resident in Australia;

  (e)   so that the provisions apply in relation to bodies incorporated under the law of that country in like manner as those provisions apply in relation to bodies incorporated under a law of the Commonwealth or of a State;

  (f)   so that the provisions apply in relation to television broadcasts and sound broadcasts made from places in that country by persons entitled under the law of that country to make such broadcasts in like manner as those provisions apply in relation to television broadcasts and sound broadcasts made from places in Australia by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, by the Special Broadcasting Service Corporation, by a holder of a licence allocated by the Australian Communications and Media Authority under the Broadcasting Services Act 1992 or by a person authorised to make the broadcast by a class licence determined by that Authority under that Act.

  (2)   Regulations applying a provision of this Act in relation to a country other than Australia in accordance with the last preceding subsection:

  (a)   may apply the provision without exception or modification or subject to such exceptions or modifications as are specified in the regulations; and

  (b)   may apply the provision either generally or in relation to such classes of works or other subject - matter, or other classes of cases, as are specified in the regulations.

  (3)   Before the Governor - General makes a regulation for the purposes of subsection   (1) applying a provision of this Act in relation to a country other than Australia:

  (a)   the country must be a party to an international agreement specified, in relation to the provision of this Act, by the regulations for the purposes of this paragraph; or

  (b)   the Minister must be satisfied that adequate protection is or will be given under the law of the country to owners of copyright under this Act in the class of works or other subject - matter to which the provision of this Act relates.

  (4)   Where:

  (a)   the identity of the author of an unpublished work is unknown but there are reasonable grounds for believing that the author of the work was, at the time when, or for a substantial part of the period during which, the work was made, a citizen or national of a country other than Australia;

  (b)   under the law of that country, a person is authorized to represent the author, or to protect and enforce the rights of the author, in relation to that work; and

  (c)   provision is made by the regulations applying any of the provisions of this Act in relation to works made by citizens or nationals of that country;

that person shall, for the purposes of those provisions as so applying, be treated as if he or she were the author of the work.


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