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Copyright Act 1994

Acts permitted in relation to copyright works

42: Criticism, review, and news reporting

You could also call this:

"Using copyright works for criticism, reviews, and news without breaking the law"

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You can use a work for criticism or review without infringing copyright if you acknowledge the work. You can also use a work to report current events without infringing copyright. If you are reporting current events in a way that is not a sound recording, film, or communication work, and the work is not a photograph, you must acknowledge the work.

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Part 3Acts permitted in relation to copyright works

42Criticism, review, and news reporting

  1. Fair dealing with a work for the purposes of criticism or review, of that or another work or of a performance of a work, does not infringe copyright in the work if such fair dealing is accompanied by a sufficient acknowledgement.

  2. Fair dealing with a work for the purpose of reporting current events by means of a sound recording, film, or communication work does not infringe copyright in the work.

  3. Fair dealing with a work (other than a photograph) for the purposes of reporting current events by any means other than those referred to in subsection (2) does not infringe copyright in the work if such fair dealing is accompanied by a sufficient acknowledgement.

Compare
  • 1962 No 33 ss 19(2), (3), 20(2), (3)
Notes
  • Section 42(2): substituted, on , by section 22 of the Copyright (New Technologies) Amendment Act 2008 (2008 No 27).