Copyright Act 1994

Miscellaneous provisions - Copyright management information

226I: Contravention of section 226G or 226H

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"Breaking rules about copyright information has the same consequences as infringing copyright."

If you own the copyright to a work or have a licence for it, you have the same rights if someone breaks the rules in section 226G or 226H as you would if someone infringed your copyright. If the information that manages the copyright identifies an author, director, or performer, that person has the same rights and remedies if someone breaks the rules in sections 226G and 226H as they would if someone infringed their rights under Part 4 or 9. This means you can take action against someone who breaks these rules, just like you would if they infringed your copyright.

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226H: Commercial dealing in work subject to CMI interference, or

"Selling copies of work with altered copyright information is not allowed in business."

226J: Offence of dealing in work subject to CMI interference, or

"Breaking copyright rules by dealing with altered or tampered works"

Part 11Miscellaneous provisions
Copyright management information

226IContravention of section 226G or 226H

A copyright owner or licensee of a work has the same rights in relation to a contravention of section 226G or 226H as a copyright owner has in respect of an infringement of copyright.
If the copyright management information is or includes information that identifies an author, a director, or a performer (or is a number or code that represents information that identifies that person), the author, director, or performer (or a person entitled to exercise that person’s rights under Part 4 or 9) has the same rights and remedies in relation to a contravention of either of sections 226G and 226H as an author, a director, or a performer has in respect of an infringement of the rights conferred by Part 4 or 9.
Subsection (2) does not limit subsection (1).

Notes

Section 226I: inserted, on 31 October 2008, by section 90 of the Copyright (New Technologies) Amendment Act 2008 (2008 No 27).
Section 226I(2): inserted, on 30 December 2018, by section 37G of the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership Amendment Act 2018 (2016 No 90).
Section 226I(3): inserted, on 30 December 2018, by section 37G of the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership Amendment Act 2018 (2016 No 90).