[F1116BExtended collective licensingU.K.
(1)The Secretary of State may by regulations provide for a licensing body that applies to the Secretary of State under the regulations to be authorised to grant copyright licences in respect of works in which copyright is not owned by the body or a person on whose behalf the body acts.
(2)An authorisation must specify—
(a)the types of work to which it applies, and
(b)the acts restricted by copyright that the licensing body is authorised to license.
(3)The regulations must provide for the copyright owner to have a right to limit or exclude the grant of licences by virtue of the regulations.
(4)The regulations must provide for any licence not to give exclusive rights.
(5) In this section “ copyright licences ” has the same meaning as in section 116.
(6)Nothing in this section applies in relation to Crown copyright or Parliamentary copyright.]
Textual Amendments
F1Ss. 116A-116D and cross-heading inserted (25.4.2013) by Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Act 2013 (c. 24), ss. 77(3), 103(1)