Section 30
Secondary infringement: provision of apparatus for infringing performance, etc.
Where copyright in a work is infringed by a public performance of the work, or by the playing or showing of the work in public, by means of apparatus for playing sound recordings, showing films, or receiving visual images or sounds conveyed by electronic means –
(a)
the person who supplied the apparatus, or any substantial part of it, if when he supplied it –
(i)
he knew or had reason to believe that it was likely to be so used as to infringe copyright; or
(ii)
in the case of apparatus the normal use of which involves a public performance, playing or showing, he did not believe on reasonable grounds that it would not be so used as to infringe copyright;
(b)
the occupier of premises who gave permission for the apparatus to be brought onto those premises, if when he gave permission he knew or had reason to believe that it was likely to be so used as to infringe copyright; and
(c)
the person who supplied a copy of a sound recording or film used to infringe copyright, if when he supplied it he knew or had reason to believe that what he supplied, or a copy made directly or indirectly from it, was likely to be so used as to infringe copyright, liable for the infringement.
Infringing copies
Meaning of “infringing copy”.