Copyright Act 2021 · 2020 Revised Edition · Part 7 · Additional Rights Relating to Copyright Works and Protected Performances
373. Right to be identified — how should an author be identified
Feedback & supportWhere an author has a moral right to be identified, he or she must be identified in accordance with this section.
The author must be identified —
in the way that the author wishes to be identified (for example, by the author’s true name or a pseudonym), but only if —
the author has made his or her wishes known, either generally or to the person who is required to identify the author; and
it is reasonable in the circumstances to identify the author in that way; and
in any other case, by any reasonable form of identification.IllustrationAn author may make known his or her wish to be identified in a certain way by identifying himself or herself in that way when making or publishing the authorial work.
Where the joint authors of an authorial work use a group name, each of them is sufficiently identified by using the group name.
In every case, the identification must be clear and reasonably prominent.
An identification is reasonably prominent if —
in a case where copies are supplied —
the identification appears in or on each copy; or
if that is not appropriate, the identification is likely to be noticed by a person acquiring a copy;
in the case of a building — the identification is visible to persons entering or approaching the building; and
in any other case — the identification is likely to be noticed by a person seeing or hearing the performance, exhibition, showing or communication, as the case may be.