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Copyright Act 2021 · 2020 Revised Edition · Part 7 · Additional Rights Relating to Copyright Works and Protected Performances
418. Power to deal with protected copies, etc., in proceedings under section 417
Feedback & support(1)
This section applies where —
(a)
a person is charged for an offence under section 417 in a court (whether or not the person is convicted); and
(b)
there is before the court or in the person’s possession an article that appears to be —
(i)
a protected copy from which the rights management information has been removed or altered without the rights owner’s authority; or
(ii)
mainly used for removing or altering the rights management information relating to a protected copy.
(2)
The court may order that the article be —
(a)
delivered up and forfeited to the rights owner concerned;
(b)
destroyed; or
(c)
otherwise dealt with.