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Copyright Act 2021 · 2020 Revised Edition · Part 5 · Permitted Uses of Copyright Works and Protected Performances
249. Films depicting historical events
Feedback & support(1)
This section applies where —
(a)
the visual images of a film consist wholly or mainly of images that, when they were first embodied in an article or a thing, were means of communicating news; and
(b)
50 years have passed since the end of the year during which the main events depicted in the film occurred.
(2)
It is a permitted use to —
(a)
cause the visual images of the film to be seen in public;
(b)
cause any sounds of the film to be heard in public; or
(c)
do both of those acts.