COPYRIGHT ACT 1968 - SECT 112DA Importation and sale etc. of copies of electronic literary or music items

COPYRIGHT ACT 1968 - SECT 112DA

  (1)   If, in relation to a published edition of a work:

  (a)   the work is, or is part of, an electronic literary or music item; and

  (b)   the edition has been published in Australia or a qualifying country;

then the copyright in the published edition is not infringed by a person who:

  (c)   imports into Australia an article that has embodied in it a non - infringing copy of the electronic literary or music item; or

  (d)   does an act mentioned in section   103 involving an article that has embodied in it a non - infringing copy of the electronic literary or music item and that has been imported into Australia by anyone.

Note:   Section   130C deals with the burden of proof a defendant bears in a civil action for infringement of copyright.

  (2)   The definition of article in section   103 does not affect this section.