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Copyright Act 2021 s 203

s 203 Inclusion of authorial work in collections for use by educational institutions

203.—(1) If the conditions in subsection (2) are met, it is a permitted use to include a short extract of an authorial work in a collection of authorial works. (2) The conditions are —(a) the work has been published; (b) the work was not published for the purpose of being used by educational institutions; (c) the collection is contained in a book, sound recording or film; (d) the collection is intended for use by educational institutions and this intention is described —(i) in the book; (ii) on the label or container of each copy of the recording; or (iii) in the film; (e) the work is sufficiently acknowledged; and (f) the collection and any similar recent collection do not contain, in total, more than one other extract from —(i) any other authorial work (being a copyright work) by the same author; or (ii) any adaptation of a literary, dramatic or musical work (being a copyright work) by the same author. (3) For the purposes of this section —(a) 2 authorial works (including adaptations) are taken to have the same author if the same person is —(i) the author or an author of both works; or (ii) the author of one work and an author of the other work; and (b) “similar recent collection” means a collection that is —(i) published by the same publisher that published the collection mentioned in subsection (1); (ii) published in the 5 years immediately before the publication of the collection mentioned in subsection (1); (iii) intended for use by educational institutions; and (iv) otherwise similar to the collection mentioned in subsection (1).

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