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Copyright (International Protection) Amendment Regulations 2018, Australia

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Details Details Year of Version 2019 Dates Adopted: November 21, 2018 Type of Text Implementing Rules/Regulations Subject Matter Copyright and Related Rights (Neighboring Rights) Notes The notification by Australia to the WTO under Article 63.2 of TRIPS states:
'The Regulation updates the protection provided to foreign countries under the Copyright (International Protection) Regulations 1969. The Regulation extends protection for secondary uses of sound recordings in Australia to recordings from an additional 32 countries which provide equivalent protection to Australian sound recordings.'

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 Copyright Amendment (International Protection) Regulation 2018

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Copyright (International Protection)

Amendment Regulations 2018

I, General the Honourable Sir Peter Cosgrove AK MC (Ret’d), Governor-General of the

Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council,

make the following regulations.

Dated 21 November 2018

Peter Cosgrove

Governor-General

By His Excellency’s Command

Mitch Fifield

Minister for Communications and the Arts

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Contents 1 Name........................................................................................................................... 1

2 Commencement .......................................................................................................... 1

3 Authority..................................................................................................................... 1

4 Schedules .................................................................................................................... 1

Schedule 1—Amendments 2

Part 1—Amendments commencing day after registration 2

Copyright (International Protection) Regulations 1969 2

Part 2—Amendments commencing 1 January 2019 5

Copyright (International Protection) Regulations 1969 5

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1 Name

This instrument is the Copyright (International Protection) Amendment

Regulations 2018.

2 Commencement

(1) Each provision of this instrument specified in column 1 of the table commences,

or is taken to have commenced, in accordance with column 2 of the table. Any

other statement in column 2 has effect according to its terms.

Column 1 Column 2 Column 3

Provisions Commencement Date/Details

1. Sections 1 to 4 and

anything in this

instrument not

elsewhere covered by

this table

The day after this instrument is registered. 27 November 2018

2. Schedule 1, Part 1 The day after this instrument is registered. 27 November 2018

3. Schedule 1, Part 2 1 January 2019. 1 January 2019

Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made. It will

not be amended to deal with any later amendments of this instrument.

(2) Any information in column 3 of the table is not part of this instrument.

Information may be inserted in this column, or information in it may be edited, in

any published version of this instrument.

3 Authority

This instrument is made under the Copyright Act 1968.

4 Schedules

Each instrument that is specified in a Schedule to this instrument is amended or

repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any

other item in a Schedule to this instrument has effect according to its terms.

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Schedule 1 Amendments

Part 1 Amendments commencing day after registration

2 Copyright (International Protection) Amendment Regulations 2018

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Schedule 1—Amendments

Part 1—Amendments commencing day after registration

Copyright (International Protection) Regulations 1969

1 Regulation 2

Repeal the regulation, substitute:

2 Authority

These regulations are made under the Copyright Act 1968.

2 Regulation 3 (after the heading)

Insert:

Note: A number of expressions used in this instrument are defined in the Act, including the

following:

(a) broadcast;

(b) cinematograph film;

(c) sound broadcast;

(d) sound recording;

(e) television broadcast;

(f) work.

3 Subregulation 3(1)

Omit “, unless the contrary intention appears”.

4 Subregulation 3(1)

Insert:

foreign encoded broadcast: see subregulation 4(7C).

5 Subregulation 3(1) (definition of US broadcaster)

Repeal the definition.

6 Regulation 4 (heading)

Repeal the heading, substitute:

4 Protection—application of the Act (other than Part XIA) to specified foreign

countries

7 Regulation 4 (after the heading)

Insert:

Scope

(1AA) For the purposes of section 184 of the Act, this regulation applies certain

provisions of the Act (other than Part XIA of the Act (performers’ protection)) in

relation to the foreign countries specified in this regulation, subject to the

exceptions and modifications specified in this regulation.

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8 Subregulation 4(7B)

Repeal the subregulation, substitute:

Encoded broadcasts made from Malaysia and the United States of America

(7B) Subject to these Regulations, a provision of Part VAA of the Act that applies to

an encoded broadcast made from a place in Australia (an Australian encoded

broadcast) applies in relation to a foreign encoded broadcast:

(a) in the same way as the provision applies, under the Act, in relation to an

Australian encoded broadcast; and

(b) as if the foreign encoded broadcast were an Australian encoded broadcast.

(7C) A foreign encoded broadcast is an encoded broadcast made at a material time by

a broadcaster if:

(a) the broadcast is made from a place in:

(i) Malaysia; or

(ii) the United States of America; and

(b) the broadcaster:

(i) is entitled, under the law of the country from which the broadcast is

made, to make that broadcast; and

(ii) is, at the material time, a citizen or national of that country, or a

person resident in, or a body corporate that has its headquarters in,

that country.

(7D) For the purposes of paragraph 184(3)(a) of the Act, the following international

agreements are specified:

(a) in relation to the application of a provision of Part VAA of the Act to a

broadcast made from a place in Malaysia—the Malaysia-Australia Free

Trade Agreement, done at Kuala Lumpur on 22 May 2012;

(b) in relation to the application of a provision of Part VAA of the Act to a

broadcast made from a place in the United States of America—the

Australia-United States Free Trade Agreement done at Washington DC on

18 May 2004.

Note: In 2018, the text of these Agreements was accessible through the Australian Treaties

Library on the AustLII website (www.austlii.edu.au).

9 Regulation 8 (heading)

Repeal the heading, substitute:

8 Protection—application of Part XIA of the Act to specified foreign countries

10 Regulation 8 (after the heading)

Insert:

Scope

(1A) For the purposes of section 248U of the Act, this regulation applies certain

provisions of Part XIA of the Act (performers’ protection) in relation to the

foreign countries specified in this regulation, subject to the exceptions and

modifications specified in this regulation.

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11 Part 4 (heading)

Repeal the heading, substitute:

Part 4—Application, savings and transitional provisions

12 In the appropriate position in Part 4

Insert:

15 Amendments made by the Copyright (International Protection) Amendment

Regulations 2018

(1) The repeal of subregulation 4(7B) of these Regulations and its substitution with

new subregulations 4(7B), (7C) and (7D) made by Part 1 of Schedule 1 to the

Copyright (International Protection) Amendment Regulations 2018 applies in

relation to a foreign encoded broadcast made on or after the commencement of

this regulation.

(2) The repeal and substitution of Schedule 3 to these regulations made by Part 2 of

Schedule 1 to the Copyright (International Protection) Amendment

Regulations 2018 applies in relation to:

(a) a recording heard in public on or after 1 January 2019; and

(b) a broadcast made on or after 1 January 2019.

Note: Part 2 of Schedule 1 to the Copyright (International Protection) Amendment

Regulations 2018 commences on 1 January 2019.

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13 Schedule 3

Repeal the Schedule, substitute:

Schedule 3—Secondary uses of sound recordings Note: See the definition of Schedule 3 country in subregulation 3(1) and subregulations 6(2) and 7(2).

Countries that provide rights for secondary uses of sound recordings

Albania

Algeria

Andorra

Argentina

Armenia

Austria

Azerbaijan

Bahamas, The

Bahrain

Bangladesh

Barbados

Belarus

Belgium

Benin

Bermuda

Bolivia

Bosnia and Herzegovina

Botswana

Brazil

Brunei Darussalam

Bulgaria

Burkina Faso

Cabo Verde

Canada

Chile

Colombia

Costa Rica

Croatia

Cyprus

Czech Republic

Denmark

Dominica

Dominican Republic

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Countries that provide rights for secondary uses of sound recordings

Ecuador

El Salvador

Estonia

Fiji

Finland

Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia

France

Georgia

Germany

Ghana

Greece

Guatemala

Guinea

Holy See, The

Honduras

Hungary

Iceland

India

Indonesia

Ireland

Israel

Italy

Jamaica

Japan

Kazakhstan

Kyrgyzstan

Latvia

Lebanon

Lesotho

Liberia

Liechtenstein

Lithuania

Luxembourg

Malaysia

Mali

Malta

Mauritius

Mexico

Moldova, Republic of

Monaco

Mongolia

Montenegro

Morocco

Netherlands

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Countries that provide rights for secondary uses of sound recordings

New Zealand

Nicaragua

Nigeria

Norway

Oman

Pakistan

Panama

Paraguay

Peru

Philippines

Poland

Portugal

Qatar

Republic of Korea

Romania

Russian Federation

Saint Lucia

Saint Vincent and the Grenadines

Serbia

Slovak Republic

Slovenia

Spain

Sweden

Switzerland

Tajikistan

Thailand

Togo

Trinidad and Tobago

Turkey

Ukraine

United Arab Emirates

United Kingdom

Uruguay

Venezuela

Vietnam

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