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Contract and Commercial Law Act 2017

Electronic transactions - Application of legal requirements to electronic transactions - Miscellaneous

238: Copyright

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“Creating electronic copies for legal reasons is okay and doesn't break copyright rules”

You don’t need to worry about breaking copyright when you’re trying to meet a legal requirement using electronic means. This applies in two situations. First, if you need to create an electronic version of a document. Second, if you need to produce information through an electronic communication. In both cases, you’re allowed to do these things without infringing on someone else’s copyright.

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Part 4 Electronic transactions
Application of legal requirements to electronic transactions: Miscellaneous

238Copyright

  1. The copyright in a work is not infringed by either of the following acts if they are carried out for the purposes of meeting a legal requirement by electronic means:

  2. the generation of an electronic form of a document:
    1. the production of information by means of an electronic communication.

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