New Zealand Acts

COPYRIGHT ACT 1994 - SECT 16

16 Acts restricted by copyright

1 The owner of the copyright in a work has the exclusive right to do, in accordance with sections 30 to 34 , the following acts in New Zealand:

a) to copy the work:

b) to issue copies of the work to the public, whether by sale or otherwise:

c) to perform the work in public:

d) to play the work in public:

e) to show the work in public:

f) to communicate the work to the public:

g) to make an adaptation of the work:

h) to do any of the acts referred to in any of paragraphs (a) to (f) in relation to an adaptation of the work:

i) to authorise another person to do any of the acts referred to in any of paragraphs (a) to (h).

2 Subsection (1) applies subject to Parts 3 and 8 .

Note: 1962 No 33 ss 6(1), 7(3), 7(4), 13(5), 14(5), 17(3) ; Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 s 16(1), (4) (UK)

History: Section 16(1)(f): substituted, on 31 October 2008, by section 12 of the Copyright (New Technologies) Amendment Act 2008 (2008 No 27).