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Copyright Amendment Act 1990

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Short Title

Infringement by importation, sale, and other dealings

Penalties and summary proceedings in respect of dealings which infringe copyright

Provisions for restricting importation of printed copies

Special exceptions from protection of literary and artistic works relating to medicines

Copyright Amendment Act 1990

Public Act		1990 No 71
Date of assent		1 August 1990

	Title
1	Short Title
2	Infringement by importation, sale, and other dealings
3	Penalties and summary proceedings in respect of dealings which infringe copyright
4	Provisions for restricting importation of printed copies
5	Special exceptions from protection of literary and artistic works relating to medicines
	Administrative information

An Act to amend the Copyright Act 1962

BE IT ENACTED by the Parliament of New Zealand as follows:

1 Short Title

This Act may be cited as the Copyright Amendment Act 1990, and shall be read together with and deemed part of the Copyright Act 1962 (hereinafter referred to as the principal Act).

2 Infringement by importation, sale, and other dealings

Section 10 of the principal Act is hereby amended by adding the following subsection:

“(5)

Nothing in this section applies in relation to a literary work or an artistic work that—

“(a)

Relates to a medicine that has been imported by the Crown pursuant to section 32a of the Medicines Act 1981; and

“(b)

Has been made, reproduced, published, adapted or distributed in an overseas country by or with the licence of the owner of the copyright in the work in that country.”

3 Penalties and summary proceedings in respect of dealings which infringe copyright

Section 28 of the principal Act is hereby amended by adding the following subsection:

“(5)

Nothing in subsection (1) of this section applies in relation to a literary work or an artistic work that—

“(a)

Relates to a medicine that has been imported by the Crown pursuant to section 32a of the Medicines Act 1981; and

“(b)

Has been made, reproduced, published, adapted or distributed in an overseas country by or with the licence of the owner of the copyright in the work in that country.”

4 Provisions for restricting importation of printed copies

Section 29 of the principal Act is hereby amended by adding the following subsection:

“(7)

Nothing in this section applies in relation to a literary work or an artistic work that—

“(a)

Relates to a medicine that has been, or is proposed to be, imported by the Crown pursuant to section 32a of the Medicines Act 1981; and

“(b)

Has been made, reproduced, published, adapted or distributed in an overseas country by or with the licence of the owner of the copyright in the work in that country.”

5 Special exceptions from protection of literary and artistic works relating to medicines

The principal Act is hereby amended by inserting, after section 20b (as inserted by section 5(1) of the Copyright Amendment Act 1985), the following section:

“20c

The reproduction or adaptation or publication of a literary or an artistic work does not infringe the copyright in that work if that work—

“(a)

Relates to a medicine that has been imported by the Crown pursuant to section 32a of the Medicines Act 1981; and

“(b)

Has been made, reproduced, published, adapted or distributed in New Zealand or in an overseas country by or with the licence of the owner of the copyright in the work in New Zealand or in that overseas country.”

This Act is administered in the Department of Justice.

Copyright Amendment Act 1990