Section 62
Section 62
(1)
Where a record of spoken words is made, in writing or otherwise, for the purpose –
(a)
of reporting current events; or
(b)
of broadcasting or including in a cable programme service the whole or part of the work, it is not an infringement of any copyright in the words as a literary work to use the record or material taken from it (or to copy the record, or any such material, and use the copy) for that purpose, if the conditions mentioned in subsection (2) have been complied with.
(2)
The conditions are that –
(a)
the record was a direct record of the spoken words and was not taken from a previous record or from a broadcast or cable programme;
(b)
the making of the record was not prohibited by the speaker and, where copyright already subsisted in the work, did not infringe copyright;
(c)
the use made of the record or material taken from it was not of a kind prohibited by or on behalf of the speaker or copyright owner before the record was made; and
(d)
the use was by or with the authority of a person who was lawfully in possession of the record.
Incorporating amendments until S 92/2013
(Clean copy) NORHASNANI /fiqah/Muslim as of 16th July 2020
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BLUV as at 24th December 2013
Public reading or recitation.