Version Superseded: 01/01/1993
Point in time view as at 01/02/1991. This version of this provision has been superseded.
There are currently no known outstanding effects for the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988, Section 29.
(1)Fair dealing with a literary, dramatic, musical or artistic work for the purposes of research or private study does not infringe any copyright in the work or, in the case of a published edition, in the typographical arrangement.
(2)Fair dealing with the typographical arrangement of a published edition for the purposes mentioned in subsection (1) does not infringe any copyright in the arrangement.
(3)Copying by a person other than the researcher or student himself is not fair dealing if—
(a)in the case of a librarian, or a person acting on behalf of a librarian, he does anything which regulations under section 40 would not permit to be done under section 38 or 39 (articles or parts of published works: restriction on multiple copies of same material), or
(b)in any other case, the person doing the copying knows or has reason to believe that it will result in copies of substantially the same material being provided to more than one person at substantially the same time and for substantially the same purpose.
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