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Copyright Act 2021 s 380

s 380 Right not to have altered copy represented as unaltered

380.—(1) The author of an authorial work has the moral right not to have an altered copy of the work represented as being unaltered. (2) A person infringes the right in subsection (1) if —(a) the person —(i) publishes an altered copy of the work as being unaltered; (ii) deals commercially in an altered copy of the work as being unaltered; or (iii) distributes an altered copy of the work as being unaltered; and (b) the person knows that —(i) the copy is an altered copy; and (ii) the alteration is not made by the author. (3) In the case of a work of joint authorship —(a) any infringement of the right in subsection (1) is an infringement of each joint author’s right; and (b) the reference to the author in subsection (2)(b) is a reference to all the joint authors. (4) In this section, “copy”, in relation to a work, includes the work itself.

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