There are currently no known outstanding effects for the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988, Section 31.
(1)Copyright in a work is not infringed by its incidental inclusion in an artistic work, sound recording, film [F1or broadcast].
(2)Nor is the copyright infringed by the issue to the public of copies, or the playing, showing [F2or communication to the public], of anything whose making was, by virtue of subsection (1), not an infringement of the copyright.
(3)A musical work, words spoken or sung with music, or so much of a sound recording [F1or broadcast] as includes a musical work or such words, shall not be regarded as incidentally included in another work if it is deliberately included.
Textual Amendments
F1Words in s. 31(1)(3) substituted (31.10.2003) by The Copyright and Related Rights Regulations 2003 (S.I. 2003/2498), reg. 2(1), Sch. 1 para. 3(1)(d)(e) (with regs. 31-40)
F2Words in s. 31(2) substituted (31.10.2003) by The Copyright and Related Rights Regulations 2003 (S.I. 2003/2498), reg. 2(1), Sch. 1 para. 6(2)(b) (with reg. 31-40)
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