Copyright Act 2021 · 2020 Revised Edition · Part 7 · Additional Rights Relating to Copyright Works and Protected Performances
399. Right not to have altered recording represented as unaltered
Feedback & supportThe performer of a performance has the moral right not to have an altered recording of the performance represented as being unaltered.
performance
“perform” and “performance”, in relation to an authorial work, have the meanings given by section 67;
A person infringes the right in subsection (1) if —
the person —
publishes an altered recording of the performance as being unaltered;
deals commercially in an altered recording of the performance as being unaltered; or
distributes an altered recording of the performance as being unaltered; and
the person knows that —
the recording is an altered recording; and
the alteration is not made by the performer.
In the case of a performance given by 2 or more performers, an infringement of the right in subsection (1) is an infringement of each performer’s right.
infringement
“infringement” means an infringement of copyright for which the copyright owner and the exclusive licensee of the copyright have concurrent rights of action;