Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988

13 (1) Where a recording of the reading or recitation of a literary work is made for the purpose— U.K.

(a) of reporting current events, or

(b) of [F1 communicating to the public] the whole or part of the reading or recitation,

it is not an infringement of the rights conferred by [F2 this Chapter] to use the recording (or to copy the recording and use the copy) for that purpose, provided the following conditions are met.

(2) The conditions are that—

(a) the recording is a direct recording of the reading or recitation and is not taken from a previous recording or from a broadcast F3 . . . ;

(b) the making of the recording was not prohibited by or on behalf of the person giving the reading or recitation;

(c) the use made of the recording is not of a kind prohibited by or on behalf of that person before the recording was made; and

(d) the use is by or with the authority of a person who is lawfully in possession of the recording.

(3) Expressions used in this paragraph have the same meaning as in section 58.

Textual Amendments

F1 Words in Sch. 2 para. 12 substituted (31.10.2003) by The Copyright and Related Rights Regulations 2003 (S.I. 2003/2498), reg. 2(1), Sch. 1 para. 12(b) (with regs. 31-40)

F2 Words in Sch. 2 para. 13(1) substituted (1.2.2006) by The Performances (Moral Rights, etc.) Regulations 2006 (S.I. 2006/18), reg. 2, Sch. para. 9 (with reg. 8)

F3 Words in Sch. 2 para. 13(2)(a) repealed (31.10.2003) by The Copyright and Related Rights Regulations 2003 (S.I. 2003/2498), reg. 2(2), Sch. 2 (with regs. 31-40)