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Copyright Act 1994

3: Associated definitions for communication works

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When you talk about communication works in this Act, you are referring to the person who sends the work or makes it available using technology, if they are responsible for what is in it. You are also referring to the person who provides the content and makes arrangements with the person sending the work for it to be communicated. If a work is sent by satellite, the place it is sent from is where the signals are transmitted to the satellite. The person sending the work is the one who transmits the signals to the satellite.

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3Associated definitions for communication works

  1. References in this Act to a person making a communication work are—

  2. to the person transmitting the communication work or making it available by means of a communication technology, if that person has responsibility to any extent for its contents; and
    1. any person who provides the contents of the work and who makes with the person communicating the work the arrangements necessary for its communication.

      1. For the purposes of this Act, in the case of communicating a work by satellite transmission,—

      2. the place from which the work is communicated is the place from which the signals carrying the work are transmitted to the satellite; and
        1. the person communicating the work is the person who transmits those signals to the satellite.

          Notes
          • Section 3: substituted, on , by section 5 of the Copyright (New Technologies) Amendment Act 2008 (2008 No 27).