Chapter: | 528B | COPYRIGHT (LIBRARIES) REGULATIONS | Gazette Number | Version Date |
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Empowering section | 30/06/1997 |
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(Cap 528, section 46)*
[1 June 1973]
(Originally L.N. 103 of 1973)
* The Copyright (Libraries) Regulations were originally made under the Copyright Act 1956. The Regulations were saved as subsidiary legislation under the Copyright Ordinance (Cap 528). See paragraph 43 of Schedule 2 to the Ordinance.
Regulation: | 1 | Citation | 30/06/1997 |
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These regulations may be cited as the Copyright (Libraries) Regulations.
Regulation: | 2 | Interpretation | 30/06/1997 |
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In these regulations, unless the context otherwise requires
"Act" means the Copyright Act 1956(a), as extended to Hong Kong by the Copyright (Hong Kong) Order 1972(b); and
"work" means a published literary, dramatic or musical work.
Regulation: | 3 | Prescribed classes of library under section 7(1) and (3) | 30/06/1997 |
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Each of the classes of library specified in the First Schedule shall be a class prescribed for the purposes of section 7(1) and (3) of the Act:
Provided that this regulation shall not apply to any library established or conducted for profit.
Regulation: | 4 | Prescribed classes of library under section 7(5) | 30/06/1997 |
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Regulation: | 5 | Prescribed classes of library under section 15(4) | 30/06/1997 |
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Regulation: | 6 | Prescribed conditions under section 7(1) and (3) | 30/06/1997 |
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(a) no copy of any work or any part of a work shall be made for or supplied to any person unless he has
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delivered to the librarian concerned, or to some person appointed by the librarian for that purpose, a declaration and undertaking in writing in relation to that work or part, substantially in accordance with the form set out in the Third Schedule and signed in the manner therein indicated;
(2) For the purposes of paragraph (1)(c)-
Regulation: | 7 | Prescribed conditions under section 7(5) | 30/06/1997 |
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The following conditions shall be the conditions prescribed for the purposes of section 7(5) of the Act, (which relates to the making and supplying of copies of any works or parts of works to librarians)-
Regulation: | 8 | Restriction on the making of copies | 30/06/1997 |
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Nothing in regulation 6 or 7 shall be taken to authorize the librarian of any library to make or supply a copy of any work or part of a work (other than an article in a periodical publication) for or to any other person (whether that person is the librarian of another library or not) if at the time when the copy is made the librarian knows the name and address of a person entitled to authorize the making of the copy or could by reasonable inquiry ascertain the name and address of such a person.
Regulation: | 9 | Prescribed conditions under section 15(4) | 30/06/1997 |
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Provided that for the purposes of section 15(4) of the Act a reproduction of the typographical arrangement of a published edition of a work may be made without infringing the copyright in the published edition notwithstanding that the librarian by or on behalf of whom the reproduction is made knows, at the time it is made, the name and address of a person who is entitled to authorize the making of such a copy or such a reproduction or could by reasonable inquiry ascertain the name and address of such a person.
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Schedule: | 1 | 30/06/1997 |
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FIRST SCHEDULE [regulations 3, 4 & 5]
I. Any library in Hong Kong to which section 15 of the Copyright Act 1911 applied until the Copyright Act 1956 was brought into operation in Hong Kong.
Schedule: | 2 | 30/06/1997 |
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SECOND SCHEDULE [regulations 4 & 5] Any library which makes works in its custody available to the public free of charge.
Schedule: | 3 | 30/06/1997 |
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THIRD SCHEDULE [regulation 6] FORM OF DECLARATION AND UNDERTAKING To The Librarian of the Library
(Address)
Signature .................................................
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Date ........................................................
[Note: This must be the personal signature of the person making the request. A stamped or typewritten signature or the signature of an agent is NOT sufficient.]
* Delete whichever is inappropriate.
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