Copyright Act 2021 · 2020 Revised Edition · Part 3 · Copyright in Works
131. Nature of copyright in cable programmes
Feedback & supportFor the purposes of this Act, unless the contrary intention appears, copyright in a cable programme is the exclusive right to do all or any of the following acts:
to make a copy of the programme;
to communicate the programme to the public;
to cause the programme —
insofar as it consists of visual images — to be seen in public by a paying audience; or
insofar as it consists of sounds — to be heard in public by a paying audience.
An act in subsection (1) may be done by —
the reception of a cable programme; or
using any record, print, negative, tape or other article on which a cable programme has been recorded.
To the extent that a cable programme consists of visual images —
visual images
“visual images”, in relation to a film, has the meaning given by section 24(2)(a);
any copyright in the programme extends to any sequence of those images that is sufficient to be seen as a moving picture; and
to show an infringement of any copyright in the programme, it is not necessary to prove that the act in question extends beyond any sequence that is so sufficient.