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COPYRIGHT ACT 1968 - SECT 195AF

Acts of false attribution of authorship of cinematograph film

  (1)   This section applies if the work is a cinematograph film.

  (2)   It is an act of false attribution in relation to the director, producer or screenwriter of the film:

  (a)   to insert or affix, or to authorise the inserting or affixing of, a person's name on the film or on a copy of the film in such a way as to imply falsely that the person is the director, producer or screenwriter, as the case may be, of the film; or

  (b)   to deal with the film or a copy of the film if a person's name has been so inserted or affixed on the film or a copy, as the case may be, and the attributor knows that the person is not the director, producer or screenwriter, as the case may be, of the film; or

  (c)   to communicate the film to the public as being a film of which a person is the director, producer or screenwriter, as the case may be, if the attributor knows that the person is not the director, producer or screenwriter of the film.


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