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Copyright Act 1994

Acts permitted in relation to copyright works - Libraries and archives

56C: Additional condition for making digital copies under section 53 or 54

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"Rule for libraries making digital copies of work"

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When you make a digital copy of a work under section 53 or 54, you must not give it to a library in a digital format unless the librarian gets rid of any extra copies they made while making the digital copy. They must destroy these extra copies as soon as they can. This rule applies to copies made under section 53 or 54.

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Part 3Acts permitted in relation to copyright works
Libraries and archives

56CAdditional condition for making digital copies under section 53 or 54

  1. A copy of a work to which section 53 or 54 applies must not be supplied in a digital format to a library unless the librarian supplying the digital copy destroys, as soon as is reasonably practicable, any additional copy made in the process of making the copy that is supplied.

Notes
  • Section 56C: inserted, on , by section 37 of the Copyright (New Technologies) Amendment Act 2008 (2008 No 27).