254B. Application of sections 140A to 141
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Sections 140A to 141 shall apply, with the necessary modifications, to copies of an unauthorised recording of a performance as those provisions apply in relation to copies of copyright material.
copyright material
“copyright material” means —(a)a work;(b)a sound recording;(c)a cinematograph film;(d)a published edition of a work; or(e)a television or a sound broadcast as recorded in a cinematograph film or a sound recording;
For the purposes of subsection (1) —
a reference in those provisions to copyright material shall be read as a reference to an unauthorised recording of a performance the protection period of which has not expired;
a reference in those provisions to the owner of the copyright or the owner of the copyright in the copyright material shall be read as a reference to the performer of a performance embodied in an unauthorised recording;
a reference in those provisions to an action for infringement of copyright shall be read as a reference to an action for unauthorised use of a performance;
a reference in those provisions to infringing copies shall be read as a reference to copies of an unauthorised recording which were made without the authorisation of the performer; and
a reference in section 140B(6) to the subsequent owner of the copyright shall be read as a reference to a person to whom the right of a performer to bring an action under section 253 has been assigned.