Appendix C - Selected provisions Copyright Act 1968 (Cth)

Summary

Section 10 Interpretation

(1) In this Act, unless the contrary intention appears:

‘access control technological protection measure’ means a device, product, technology or component (including a computer program) that:

1. (a) is used in Australia or a qualifying country:

1. (i) by, with the permission of, or on behalf of, the owner or the exclusive licensee of the copyright in a work or other subject-matter; and

2. (ii) in connection with the exercise of the copyright; and

1. (b) in the normal course of its operation, controls access to the work or other subject-matter;

but does not include such a device, product, technology or component to the extent that it:

1. (c) if the work or other subject-matter is a cinematograph film or computer program (including a computer game)—controls geographic market segmentation by preventing the playback in Australia of a non-infringing copy of the work or other subject-matter acquired outside Australia; or

2. (d) if the work is a computer program that is embodied in a machine or device—restricts the use of goods (other than the work) or services in relation to the machine or device.

For the purposes of this definition, computer program has the same meaning as in section 47AB.

1. ‘adaptation’ means:

1. (a) in relation to a literary work in a non-dramatic form a version of the work (whether in its original language or in a different language) in a dramatic form;

2. (b) in relation to a literary work in a dramatic form a version of the work (whether in its original language or in a different language) in a non-dramatic form;

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