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2003 No. 2498

COPYRIGHT

RIGHTS IN PERFORMANCES

The Copyright and Related Rights Regulations 2003

  Made 27th September 2003 
  Laid before Parliament 3rd October 2003 
  Coming into force 31st October 2003 


ARRANGEMENT OF REGULATIONS


PART 1

INTRODUCTORY PROVISIONS
1. Citation and commencement
2. Consequential amendments and repeals

PART 2

AMENDMENTS OF THE COPYRIGHT, DESIGNS AND PATENTS ACT 1988
3. Introductory
Broadcasts
4. Provisions relating to broadcasts
5. Other amendments relating to broadcasts
Acts restricted by copyright
6. Restricted act: communication to the public of the work
Making available right
7. Making available right for performers
Acts permitted in relation to copyright works and rights in performances
8. Making temporary copies
9. Amendment of provision relating to research and private study
10. Amendment of provisions relating to criticism, review and news reporting
11. Amendment of provisions relating to things done for the purposes of instruction or examination
12. Amendment of provisions relating to recordings by educational establishments of broadcasts
13. Amendment of provision relating to reprographic copying by educational establishments
14. Amendment of provisions relating to copying by librarians
15. Observing, studying and testing of computer programs
16. Amendment of provision relating to recordings of folksongs
17. Amendment of provision relating to the advertisement of sale of artistic work
18. Amendment of provisions relating to the playing of sound recordings for the purposes of club, society &c
19. Provisions relating to recording for the purposes of time-shifting
20. Provisions relating to photographs of broadcasts
21. Amendment of provisions on public showing or playing of broadcast
22. Amendment of provisions on the reception and re-transmission of broadcasts
23. Amendment of the provisions on the sub-titling of copies of broadcasts
Technical measures and rights management information
24. Circumvention of protection measures
25. Rights management information
Sanctions and Remedies
26. New criminal offences
27. Injunctions against service providers
28. Rights and remedies of a non-exclusive licensee
Duration
29. Duration of copyright in sound recordings

PART 3

SAVINGS AND TRANSITIONAL PROVISIONS
General provisions
30. Introductory
31. General rules
32. Savings for certain existing agreements
Special provisions
33. Permitted acts
34. Performers' rights: making available to the public
35. Exercise of rights in relation to performances
36. Ownership of extended copyright in sound recordings
37. Prospective ownership of extended copyright in sound recordings
38. Extended copyright in sound recordings: existing licences, agreements, etc.
39. Duration of copyright in sound recordings: general saving
40. Sanctions and remedies

  Schedule 1 -  Consequential amendments

  Schedule 2 -  Repeals

  Schedule 3 -  New Schedule 5A to the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988

The Secretary of State, being a Minister designated for the purposes of section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 1972[
1], in relation to measures relating to copyright and to rights in performances[2] and also in relation to measures relating to the prevention of unauthorised extraction of the contents of a database, and of unauthorised reutilisation of those contents[3], in exercise of the powers conferred on her by that section, hereby makes the following Regulations:



PART 1

INTRODUCTORY PROVISIONS

Citation and commencement
     1. These Regulations may be cited as the Copyright and Related Rights Regulations 2003 and shall come into force on 31st October 2003.

Consequential amendments and repeals
    
2.  - (1) Schedule 1 (consequential amendments) shall have effect.

    (2) Schedule 2 (repeals) shall have effect.



PART 2

AMENDMENTS OF THE COPYRIGHT, DESIGNS AND PATENTS ACT 1988

Introductory
    
3. The Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988[4] shall be amended as follows and, except where otherwise indicated, any reference in this Part to a section or paragraph is a reference to a section or paragraph of that Act and reference to a Schedule is to a Schedule to that Act.

Broadcasts

Provisions relating to broadcasts
     4. Section 6 shall be amended as follows - 

Other amendments relating to broadcasts
    
5.  - (1) Section 7 shall cease to have effect.

    (2) In section 1(1)(b) for the words ", broadcasts or cable programmes" there shall be substituted "or broadcasts".

    (3) Section 6A shall be amended as follows - 

    (4) Section 9(2)(c) shall cease to have effect.

    (5) In section 17(4) for the words ", television broadcast or cable programme" and ", broadcast or cable programme", there shall be substituted " or broadcast".

    (6) In section 144A(1) before the word "broadcast" there shall be inserted "wireless".

Acts restricted by copyright

Restricted act: communication to the public of the work
    
6.  - (1) For section 20 there shall be substituted - 

    (2) For section 16(1)(d) there shall be substituted - 

Making available right for performers
    
7.  - (1) After section 182C there shall be inserted - 

    (2) In section 182D (right to equitable remuneration for exploitation of sound recording) for subsection (1)(b) there shall be substituted - 

    (3) In section 191A (performers' property rights) in subsection (1) after the entry for "rental right and lending right" there shall be inserted "making available right (section 182CA),".

    (4) Schedule 2A shall be amended as follows - 

Making temporary copies 
    
8.  - (1) After the heading "General" appearing before section 29 there shall be inserted - 

    (2) After paragraph 1 of Schedule 2 there shall be inserted - 

    (3) After section 182A(1) there shall be inserted - 

Amendment of provision relating to research and private study
    
9. Section 29 shall be amended as follows - 

Amendment of provisions relating to criticism, review and news reporting
    
10.  - (1) Section 30 shall be amended as follows - 

    (2) For paragraph 2(1) of Schedule 2 there shall be substituted - 

Amendment of provisions relating to things done for the purposes of instruction or examination
    
11. Section 32 shall be amended as follows - 

    (2) Paragraph 4 of Schedule 2 shall be amended as follows - 

Amendment of provisions relating to recordings by educational establishments of broadcasts
    
12.  - (1) Section 35 shall be amended as follows - 

    (2) Paragraph 6 of Schedule 2 shall be amended as follows - 

Amendment of provision relating to reprographic copying by educational establishments
    
13. Section 36 shall be amended as follows - 

Amendment of provisions relating to copying by librarians
    
14.  - (1) In both sections 38 and 39 for subsection (2)(a) there shall be substituted - 

    (2) For section 43(3)(a) there shall be substituted - 

Observing, studying and testing of computer programs
    
15.  - (1) After section 50B there shall be inserted - 

    (2) In section 50A(2) after the word "50B" there shall be inserted ", 50BA".

    (3) In section 50C(3) for the words "section 50A or 50B" there shall be substituted "section 50A, 50B or 50BA".

    (4) For section 296A(1)(c) there shall be substituted - 

Amendment of provision relating to recordings of folksongs
    
16. For section 61(4)(a) there shall be substituted - 

Amendment of provision relating to the advertisement of sale of artistic work
    
17. In section 63(2) for the words "or distributed", there shall be substituted ", distributed or communicated to the public".

Amendment of provisions relating to the playing of sound recordings for the purposes of club, society &c
    
18.  - (1) In section 67(2) for the words from "and" appearing at the end of paragraph (a) to the end of the subsection there shall be substituted - 

    (2) In paragraph 15 of Schedule 2, in sub-paragraph (2) for the words from "and" appearing at the end of paragraph (a) to the end of the sub-paragraph there shall be substituted - 

Provisions relating to recording for the purposes of time-shifting
    
19.  - (1) What is now section 70 shall become subsection (1) of section 70.

    (2) In the new section 70(1) after the words "The making" there shall be inserted " in domestic premises" and after that subsection there shall be inserted - 

    (3) After paragraph 17 of Schedule 2 there shall be inserted - 

Provisions relating to photographs of broadcasts
    
20.  - (1) For section 71 there shall be substituted - 

    (2) After paragraph 17A of Schedule 2 (inserted by regulation 19(3)) there shall be inserted - 

    (3) In section 27(6) for the "or" appearing at the end of the entry for section 68(4) there shall be substituted - 

    (4) In section 197(5) at the appropriate place there shall be inserted - 

Amendment of provisions on public showing or playing of broadcast
    
21.  - (1) Section 72 shall be amended as follows - 

    (2) Paragraph 18 of Schedule 2 shall be amended as follows - 

    (3) After section 128 there shall be inserted - 

    (4) In section 120(1) for the words "section 118 or 119" there shall be substituted "section 118, 119 or 128A".

    (5) In section 127(1) for the words "section 125 or 126" there shall be substituted "section 125, 126 or 128B (where that order did not relate to a licensing scheme)".

    (6) In section 149 after paragraph (c) there shall be inserted - 

    (7) In section 179 (index of defined expressions: Part 1), at the appropriate place insert - 

excepted sound recording section 72(1A)".


Amendment of provisions on the reception and re-transmission of broadcasts
    
22.  - (1) Section 73 shall be amended as follows - 

    (2) In section 73A(1) for the words from "broadcast", where it first appears, to "service" there shall be substituted "wireless broadcast by cable".

    (3) Paragraph 19 of Schedule 2 shall be amended as follows - 

Amendment of the provisions on the sub-titling of copies of broadcasts
    
23.  - (1) In section 74(1) after the word "issue" there shall be inserted " or lend".

    (2) Paragraph 20 of Schedule 2 shall be amended as follows - 

Technical measures and rights management information

Circumvention of protection measures
    
24.  - (1) For the heading "Devices designed to circumvent copy-protection" (appearing before section 296) and for section 296 there shall be substituted - 

    (2) After Schedule 5 there shall be inserted, as Schedule 5A, the Schedule which is set out in Schedule 3 (new Schedule 5A to the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988).

Rights management information
    
25. After section 296ZF (inserted by regulation 24(1)) there shall be inserted - 

Sanctions and remedies

New criminal offences
    
26.  - (1) Section 107 shall be amended as follows - 

    (2) In the following provisions - 

    (3) Section 198 shall be amended as follows - 

    (4) In the following provisions - 

for the words "section 198(1)" there shall be substituted "section 198(1) or (1A)".

Injunctions against service providers
    
27.  - (1) After section 97 there shall be inserted - 

    (2) After section 191J there shall be inserted - 

Rights and remedies of a non-exclusive licensee
    
28. After section 101 there shall be inserted - 

Duration

Duration of copyright in sound recordings
    
29. Section 13A shall be amended as follows - 



PART 3

SAVINGS AND TRANSITIONAL PROVISIONS

General provisions

Introductory
    
30.  - (1) In this Part - 

    (2) Expressions used in this Part which are defined for the purposes of Part 1 or 2 of the 1988 Act have the same meaning as in that Part.

General rules
    
31.  - (1) Subject to regulation 32, these Regulations apply to - 

before or after commencement.

    (2) No act done before commencement shall be regarded as an infringement of any new or extended right arising by virtue of these Regulations.

Savings for certain existing agreements
    
32.  - (1) Nothing in these Regulations affects any agreement made before 22nd December 2002.

    (2) No act done after commencement, in pursuance of an agreement made before 22nd December 2002, shall be regarded as an infringement of any new or extended right arising by virtue of these Regulations.

Special provisions

Permitted acts
    
33. The provisions of Chapter 3 of Part 1 (acts permitted in relation to copyright works) and Schedule 2 (rights in performances: permitted acts) in the 1988 provisions shall continue to apply to anything done after commencement in completion of an act begun before commencement which was permitted by those provisions.

Performers' rights: making available to the public
    
34.  - (1) Those parts of section 182D in the 1988 provisions which confer a right to equitable remuneration in relation to the making available to the public in the way mentioned in section 182CA(1) (regulation 7) of a commercially published sound recording shall cease to apply on commencement.

    (2) Any assignment made before commencement under the provisions of section 182D(2) shall, on commencement, cease to apply insofar as it relates to the new making available to the public right conferred by section 182CA (regulation 7).

Exercise of rights in relation to performances
    
35.  - (1) The new right conferred by section 182CA (consent required for making available to the public) (in regulation 7) is exercisable as from commencement by the performer or (if he has died) by the person who immediately before commencement was entitled by virtue of section 192A(2) to exercise the rights conferred on the performer by Part 2 in relation to that performance.

    (2) Any damages received by a person's personal representatives by virtue of the right conferred by paragraph (1) shall devolve as part of that person's estate as if the right had subsisted and been vested in him immediately before his death.

Ownership of extended copyright in sound recordings
    
36. The person who is the owner of the copyright in a sound recording immediately before commencement is as from commencement the owner of any extended copyright in that sound recording.

Prospective ownership of extended copyright in sound recordings
    
37.  - (1) Where by an agreement made before commencement in relation to extended copyright in a sound recording, and signed by or on behalf of the prospective owner of the copyright, the prospective owner purports to assign the extended copyright (wholly or partially) to another person, then, if on commencement the assignee or another person claiming under him would be entitled as against all other persons to require the copyright to be vested in him, the copyright shall vest in the assignee or his successor in title by virtue of this paragraph.

    (2) A licence granted by a prospective owner of extended copyright in a sound recording is binding on every successor in title to his interest (or prospective interest) in the right, except a purchaser in good faith for valuable consideration and without notice (actual or constructive) of the licence or a person deriving title from such a purchaser; and references in Part 1 of the 1988 Act to doing anything with, or without, the licence of the copyright owner shall be construed accordingly.

Extended copyright in sound recordings: existing licences, agreements, etc.
    
38.  - (1) Any copyright licence or any term or condition of an agreement relating to the exploitation of a sound recording which - 

shall continue to have effect during the period of any extended copyright in that sound recording, subject to any agreement to the contrary.

    (2) Any copyright licence, or term or condition relating to the exploitation of a sound recording, imposed by order of the Copyright Tribunal which - 

shall continue to have effect during the period of any extended copyright, subject to any further order of the Tribunal.

Duration of copyright in sound recordings: general saving
    
39. Copyright in an existing sound recording shall continue to subsist until the date it would have expired under Regulation 15 of the Duration of Copyright and Rights in Performances Regulations 1995 (SI 1995/3297) if that date is later than the date on which copyright would expire under the provisions of section 13A of the 1988 Act as amended by regulation 29.

Sanctions and remedies
    
40.  - (1) Section 296 in the 1988 provisions (devices designed to circumvent copy-protection) shall continue to apply to acts done in relation to computer programs or other works prior to commencement.

    (2) Section 296 as substituted by regulation 24(1) (circumvention of technical devices applied to computer programs), and sections 296ZA (circumvention of technological measures) and 296ZD (rights and remedies in respect of devices designed to circumvent technological measures), introduced by regulation 24(1), shall apply to acts done in relation to computer programs or other works on or after commencement.

    (3) Sections 107(2A), 198(1A) and 296ZB(1) and (2) (offences) do not have effect in relation to any act committed before commencement.


Sainsbury of Turville,
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Science and Innovation, Department of Trade and Industry

27th September 2003



SCHEDULE 1
Regulation 2(1)


CONSEQUENTIAL AMENDMENTS




PART 1

AMENDMENTS OF THE COPYRIGHT, DESIGNS AND PATENTS ACT 1988

     1. The Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988[
5] shall be amended as follows and, except where otherwise indicated, any reference in this Part to a section or paragraph is a reference to a section or paragraph of that Act and reference to a Schedule is to a Schedule to that Act.

Amending the headings of certain provisions
     2.  - (1) In the headings of section 69 and paragraph 17 of Schedule 2 for the words "cable programmes" there shall be substituted "other services".

    (2) In the heading of paragraph 5 of Schedule 2 for the words ", broadcast or cable programme" there shall be substituted "or broadcast".

Amendments relating to the new definition of "broadcast"
     3.  - (1) In each of the following provisions - 

for the words ", broadcast or cable programme" there shall be substituted "or broadcast".

    (2) In each of the follow provisions - 

for the words ", broadcasts or cable programmes" there shall be substituted "or broadcasts".

    (3) In section 299(5) for the words ', "broadcasting"' to "service"' there shall be substituted 'and "broadcasting"'.

Amendments relating to "communication to the public" etc
     4.  - (1) For section 12(5)(a)(ii) there shall be substituted - 

    (2) For section 12(5)(b)(iii) there shall be substituted - 

    (3) For section 13B(6)(b) there shall be substituted - 

    (4) For both section 117(d) and section 124(d) there shall be substituted - 

    (5) For section 198(2)(b) there shall be substituted - 

    (6) For paragraph 17(b) of Schedule 1 there shall be substituted - 

     5. In each of the following provisions - 

for the words from "broadcasting" to "service" there shall be substituted "communication to the public".

     6.  - (1) In each of the following provisions - 

for the words from "broadcasting" to "service" there shall be substituted "communication to the public of the work".

    (2) In each of the following provisions - 

for the words from ", broadcasting" to "service" there shall be substituted "or communication to the public".

     7. In section 151A(1)(a) for the words from "broadcasting" to "service" there shall be substituted "communicating a work to the public".

     8.  - (1) In each of the following provisions - 

for the words ", broadcast or included in a cable programme service", in each place where they occur, there shall be substituted "or communicated to the public".

    (2) In each of the following provisions - 

for the words from "broadcast" to "service" there shall be substituted "communicated to the public".

    (3) In section 51(2) for the words from ", broadcast" to "service" there shall be substituted "or communicate to the public".

     9.  - (1) In each of the following provisions - 

for the words from ", broadcast" to "programme" there shall be substituted "or communication to the public".

    (2) In section 107(3) for the words from "broadcast" to "programme" there shall be substituted "communication to the public".

     10.  - (1) In each of the following provisions - 

for the words from ", broadcasts" to "service" there shall be substituted "or communicates to the public".

    (2) In each of the following provisions - 

for the words from ", broadcasts" to "service" there shall be substituted "or communicates it to the public".

     11. In each of the following provisions - 

for the words from ", live broadcast" to "programme" there shall be substituted "or live broadcast".

     12. In each of the following provisions - 

for the words from "broadcasting" to "service" there shall be substituted "communicating to the public".

     13.  - (1) In each of the following provisions - 

for the words from "broadcasts" to "service" there shall be substituted "communicates to the public".

    (2) In section 80(4)(a) for the words from "or broadcasts" to "service" there shall be substituted "or communicates to the public".

     14. In section 62(2)(c) for the words from "broadcasting" to "service" there shall be substituted "making a broadcast of".

Amendment of certain definitions
     15.  - (1) In section 135A(5), before the definition of "needletime", there shall be inserted - 

    (2) For section 144A(7) there shall be substituted - 

    (3) In section 178, at the appropriate places, the following definitions shall be inserted - 

    (4) In section 179, at the appropriate places, the following entries shall be inserted - 

communication to the public section 20"


private study section 178"


wireless broadcast section 178".


    (5) Section 211 shall be amended as follows - 

    (6) In section 212, at the appropriate places, the following entries shall be inserted - 

communication to the public section 211(1) (and section 20)"


injunction (in Scotland) section 211(1) (and section 177)"


making available right section 182CA".


Amendment of Schedule 1
     16. Schedule 1 shall be amended as follows - 

Amendment of Schedule 2A
     17. In paragraph 16 of Schedule 2A - 

Further amendments resulting from Directive 93/98/EEC
     18.  - (1) In section 79(3) for the words from "vested" to the end of the subsection there shall be substituted "vested in the author's or director's employer by virtue of section 11(2) (works produced in the course of employment).".

    (2) In section 82(1)(a) after the word "author's" there shall be inserted " or director's" and the words from "or", appearing after the word "employment)", to the end of the paragraph shall be omitted.

    (3) Paragraph 12(3) of Schedule 1 shall be amended as follows - 



PART 2

AMENDMENTS OF OTHER ACTS

Amendment of the Medicines Act 1968
     19. Section 92 of the Medicines Act 1968[
6] shall be amended as follows - 

Amendment of the Olympic Symbol etc (Protection) Act 1995
     20. In section 4(3) of the Olympic Symbol etc (Protection) Act 1995[7] for the words ", a broadcast and a cable programme" there shall be substituted "and a broadcast".

Amendment of the Broadcasting Act 1996
     21. Section 137 of the Broadcasting Act 1996[8] shall be amended as follows - 

Amendment of the Copyright (Visually Impaired Persons) Act 2002
     22. The Copyright (Visually Impaired Persons) Act 2002[9] shall be amended as follows - 


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