Version Superseded: 01/10/1996
Point in time view as at 01/02/1991. This version of this provision has been superseded.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 73.
(1)This section applies where a broadcast made from a place in the United Kingdom is, by reception and immediate re-transmission, included in a cable programme service.
(2)The copyright in the broadcast is not infringed—
(a)
F1(b)if and to the extent that the broadcast is made for reception in the area in which the cable programme service is provided and is not a satellite transmission or an encrypted transmission.
(3)The copyright in any work included in the broadcast is not infringed—
(a)
F2(b)if and to the extent that the broadcast is made for reception in the area in which the cable programme service is provided;
but where the making of the broadcast was an infringement of the copyright in the work, the fact that the broadcast was re-transmitted as a programme in a cable programme service shall be taken into account in assessing the damages for that infringement.
Textual Amendments
F1S. 73(2)(a) and the word “or" immediately following it repealed by Broadcasting Act 1990 (c. 42, SIF 96), s. 203(3), Sch. 21
F2S. 73(3)(a) and the word “or" immediately following it repealed by Broadcasting Act 1990 (c. 42, SIF 96), s. 203(3), Sch. 20
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