Copyright and Related Rights Act 2000

Reproduction right.

39

39.—(1) References in this Part to copying shall be construed as including references to all or any of the following, namely:

(a) in relation to any work—

(i) storing the work in any medium,

(ii) the making of copies which are transient or incidental to some other use of the work;

(b) in relation to an artistic work, the making of a copy in three dimensions of a two dimensional work and the making of a copy in two dimensions of a three dimensional work;

(c) in relation to a film, television broadcast or cable programme, making a photograph of the whole or a substantial part of any image forming part of the film, broadcast or programme;

(d) in relation to a typographical arrangement of a published edition, making a reprographic copy of the arrangement.

(2) There shall be a right of the owner of copyright to copy a work or to authorise others to do so which shall be known and in this Part referred to as the “reproduction right”.

Annotations

Editorial Notes:

C6

Application of section restricted (12.11.2021) by European Union (Copyright and Related Rights in the Digital Single Market) Regulations 2021 (S.I. No. 567 of 2021), reg. 13(1).

Protection of press publications concerning online uses

13. (1) Subject to Regulations 14 to 17, the rights provided for in sections 37, 39 and 40 of the Act of 2000 shall apply to publishers of press publications established in the State for the online use of their press publications by information society service providers, but shall not apply in relation to –

(a) private or non-commercial uses of press publications by individual users,

(b) acts of hyperlinking, or

(c) the use of individual words or very short extracts of a press publication.

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