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261B. Interpretation and effect of application of this Part

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Last amended by an amending law of 2004.

(1)

In this Part, unless the context otherwise requires —

“circumvent” means to avoid, bypass, remove, deactivate, descramble (where the copy is scrambled), decrypt (where the copy is encrypted) or otherwise impair;

“copy”, in relation to any work or other subject-matter or any performance, means a copy of the work or subject-matter or of a recording of the performance, and includes the original version of the work or subject-matter or a recording of the performance;

“encryption technology” means technology for scrambling and descrambling information using mathematical formulae or algorithms;

“non-profit” means not operated or conducted for profit;

“performance”, “protection period”, “recording” and “unauthorised use” have the same meanings as in Part XII;

“personally identifying information” means information which can be used to identify persons using a network;

“technological access control measure” means any technology, device or component that, in the normal course of its operation, effectively controls access to a copy of —

(a)

a work or other subject-matter; or

(b)

a performance,but excludes such technology, device or component as the Minister may prescribe;

“technological measure” means a technological access control measure or a technological protection measure;

“technological protection measure” means any technology, device or component that, in the normal course of its operation, effectively prevents or limits the doing of —

(a)

in relation to a copy of a work or other subject-matter, any act comprised in the copyright in the work or subject-matter; or

(b)

in relation to a copy of a performance, an unauthorised use of the performance,but excludes such technology, device or component as the Minister may prescribe.

(2)

Nothing in this Part shall affect any act done in relation to a work or other subject-matter in which copyright no longer subsists, or in relation to a performance the protection period of which has expired.

(3)

Nothing in this Part shall affect —

(a)

any copyright subsisting in a work or other subject-matter;

(b)

any right in relation to a performance or a recording thereof;

(c)

any limitation on copyright in a work or other subject-matter, or on a right in relation to a performance or a recording thereof; or

(d)

any defence to an action for infringement of copyright, or for an unauthorised use of a performance,under any provision of this Act.

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