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Copyright Act 1994

Performers' rights - Miscellaneous provisions - Licences

194I: Licences

You could also call this:

"Getting permission to use someone's work"

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You get a licence from someone who owns performance rights. This licence applies to anyone who later owns those rights, except someone who buys them without knowing about the licence. You also do not have to follow the licence if you get the rights from someone who bought them without knowing. You have the same rights against the new owner as you do against the person who gave you the licence, if you have an exclusive licence.

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Part 9Performers' rights
Miscellaneous provisions: Licences

194ILicences

  1. A licence granted by a person entitled to exercise a performer’s property rights is binding on every successor in title to that person’s interest in the rights, except—

  2. a purchaser in good faith for valuable consideration and without notice (actual or constructive) of the licence; or
    1. a person deriving title from a purchaser referred to in paragraph (a).

      1. The licensee under an exclusive performer’s rights licence has the same rights against a successor in title who is bound by the licence as that licensee has against the person who granted the licence.

      Notes
      • Section 194I: inserted, on , by section 29 of the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership Amendment Act 2018 (2016 No 90).