78A.—(1) The copyright in a design document or model recording or embodying a design for anything other than an artistic work or a typeface is not infringed by the making of a product to the design or the copying of a product made to the design.

(2) The copyright in a design document or a model recording or embodying a design for anything other than an artistic work or a typeface is not infringed by the issue to the public, or the inclusion in a film, broadcast or cable programme service, of anything the making of which is, by virtue of subsection (1), not an infringement of that copyright.

(3) In this section and section 78B—

"design" means the design of any aspect of the shape or contours (whether internal or external) of the whole or part of a product, other than surface decoration;

"design document" means any record of a design, whether in the form of a drawing, a written description, a photograph, storing the work in any medium or otherwise;

"product" means any industrial or handicraft item, including parts intended to be assembled into a complex product, packaging, get-up, graphic symbols and typographical typefaces, but not including computer programmes; and

"complex product" means a product which is composed of multiple components which can be replaced permitting disassembly and reassembly of the product.]