Copyright Act 2021 · 2020 Revised Edition · Part 7 · Additional Rights Relating to Copyright Works and Protected Performances
380. Right not to have altered copy represented as unaltered
Feedback & supportThe author of an authorial work has the moral right not to have an altered copy of the work represented as being unaltered.
A person infringes the right in subsection (1) if —
the person —
publishes an altered copy of the work as being unaltered;
deals commercially in an altered copy of the work as being unaltered; or
distributes an altered copy of the work as being unaltered; and
the person knows that —
the copy is an altered copy; and
the alteration is not made by the author.
In the case of a work of joint authorship —
any infringement of the right in subsection (1) is an infringement of each joint author’s right; and
the reference to the author in subsection (2)(b) is a reference to all the joint authors.
In this section, “copy”, in relation to a work, includes the work itself.
copy
“copy” has the meanings given by the provisions in Subdivision (2) of Division 3 of Part 2;