Copyright+-+when+is+copyright+infringed?

when is copyright infringed?

  The copyright in any work or any other, is infringed when any act which the copyright owner has the exclusive right to do is done by a person in Australia who is not the copyright owner (or his or her licensee). Examples include when a work is published, reproduced or performed in public without the copyright owner's permission. This general rule is subject to a number of specific exceptions in the Copyright Act.   The copyright in any work or any other matter is also infringed when any act which the copyright owner has the exclusive right to do is authorised to be done by a person in Australia who is not the copyright owner (or his or her licensee). For example, a person could be taken to have authorised a copyright infringement if they provide access to a photocopier and expressly or impliedly permit someone else to make infringing copies on it. In the online environment, providing links to infringing material may, in some circumstances, constitute authorisation of an infringement
 * Exclusive rights**
 * Authorising an infringement**

**Photocopying, scanning or electric copying**  Photocopying or scanning a literary, artistic, dramatic or musical work is one of the more common ways of infringing copyright in works as it involves reproduction of the work. A large number of authors and publishers are members of a copyright-collecting agency called Copyright Agency Limited (CAL [|www.copyright.com.au]). CAL is authorised to stop the photocopying of these works. A licence from CAL can be obtained for the photocopying of published literary works. Or, the permission of the author or publisher should be sought.

  The Copyright Act also makes certain other acts an indirect infringement of copyright. It is an infringement of copyright to import copyright infringing articles (ie pirate goods) into Australia for trade purposes. Commercial dealings with infringing or pirate articles also constitute an infringement of copyright. Infringing or pirate articles are items such as copies of DVDs and computer games that are made without legal authority or consent from the owner of the copyright material in them. There are also restrictions on importation of certain legitimate copyright goods into Australia without the permission of the copyright owner. This is called ‘parallel importation’.  It is an infringement of copyright to permit a place of public entertainment to be used for an infringing public performance of a literary, dramatic or musical work.
 * Importation and commercial dealings**
 * Place of public entertainment**

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