Copyright and Related Rights Act 2000

F62[Format shifting by librarians or archivists

68A

68A.—(1) Subject to subsection (2), it is not an infringement of the rights conferred by this Part where the librarian or archivist of a prescribed library or prescribed archive makes, or causes to be made, a copy of a work, in the permanent collection of the library or archive, in a different form to that which the copy takes if—

(a) that librarian or archivist lawfully uses the means used to make the copy, and

(b) the copy is made solely for preservation or archival purposes where those purposes are neither directly nor indirectly commercial.

(2) Subsection (1) shall not apply where—

(a) the work being copied is an infringing copy, and

(b) the librarian or archivist making the copy, or causing it to be made, did not have reasonable grounds for believing that the work was not an infringing copy.]

F63[(3) Any contractual provisions contrary to this section shall be unenforceable.]

Annotations

Amendments:

F62

Inserted (2.12.2019) by Copyright and Other Intellectual Property Law Provisions Act 2019 (19/2019), s. 18, S.I. No. 586 of 2019.

F63

Inserted (12.11.2021) by European Union (Copyright and Related Rights in the Digital Single Market) Regulations 2021 (S.I. No. 567 of 2021), reg. 6(b).

Editorial Notes:

E12

The section heading is taken from the amending section in the absence of one included in the amendment.