Statutory Rules
1980 No. 276
REGULATIONS UNDER THE COPYRIGHT ACT 19681
I, THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, hereby make the following Regulations under the Copyright Act 1968.
Dated this seventeenth day of September 1980.
ZELMAN COWEN
Governor-General
By His Excellency’s Command,
P. DURACK
Attorney-General
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AMENDMENTS OF THE COPYRIGHT (INTERNATIONAL
PROTECTION) REGULATIONS2
Interpretation
1. Regulation 3 of the Copyright (International Protection) Regulations is amended—
(a) by omitting paragraph (a) of sub-regulation (4) and substituting the following paragraph:
“(a) the overseas Departments and Territories of France shall be deemed to form part of the territory of France;”;
(b) by inserting after paragraph (b) of that sub-regulation the following paragraph:
“(ba) the Netherland Antilles shall be deemed to form part of the territory of the Netherlands;”;
(c) by omitting paragraph (d) of that sub-regulation and substituting the following paragraph:
“(d) the overseas Provinces of Portugal shall be deemed to form part of the territory of Portugal;”;
(d) by omitting from paragraph (e) of that sub-regulation “, the British Solomon Islands Protectorate”; and
(e) by omitting from paragraph (f) of that sub-regulation “, the Panama Canal Zone”.
Application of certain provisions of Act to certain overseas works
2. Regulation 9 of the Copyright (International Protection) Regulations is amended by omitting sub-regulations (2) and (3) and substituting the following sub-regulations:
“(2) Where a work was first published before the commencement of the Act in a country specified in Part I of Schedule 1, section 210 of the Act applies to the work as if, for the purpose of determining, for the purpose of that section, whether copyright subsisted in a work under the Copyright Act, 1911 immediately before the commencement of the Act, the work was first published in Australia.
“(3) Where, in relation to a work that was made before 1 July 1912—
(a) the work was first published or performed in; or
(b) the author of the work was, at a material time, a national, citizen or resident of,
a country specified in Part I of Schedule 1, Division 5 of Part XI of the Act applies to the work as if—
(c) the work was first published or performed in Australia; or
(d) the author of the work was, at a material time, an Australian citizen or a resident of Australia.”.
Schedules
3. The First and Second Schedules to the Copyright (International Protection) Regulations are repealed and the Schedule set out in Schedule 1 substituted.
Third Schedule
4. The Third Schedule to the Copyright (International Protection) Regulations is amended by omitting “THIRD SCHEDULE” and substituting “SCHEDULE 3”.
Further Amendments
5. The Copyright (International Protection) Regulations are further amended as set out in Schedule 2.
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SCHEDULE 1 Regulation 3
Schedule to be inserted in the Copyright (International Protection) Regulations.
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SCHEDULE 1 Regulations 3, 4, 8, 9, 10 and 11
PART I
| Arab Republic of Egypt | Greece | Norway |
| Argentina | Holy See | Pakistan |
| Austria | Hungary | Philippines |
| Bahamas | Iceland | Poland |
| Belgium | India | Portugal |
| Benin | Ireland | Romania |
| Brazil | Israel | Senegal |
| Bulgaria | Italy | South Africa |
| United Republic of Cameroon | Ivory Coast | Spain |
| Canada | Japan | Sri Lanka |
| Central African Republic | Lebanon | Surinam |
| Chad | Libyan Arab Jamahiriya | Sweden |
| Chile | Liechtenstein | Switzerland |
| Congo | Luxembourg | Thailand |
| Costa Rica | Madagascar | Togo |
| Cyprus | Mali | Tunisia |
| Czechoslovakia | Malta | Turkey |
| Denmark | Mauritania | United Kingdom of Great |
| Fiji | Mexico | Britain and Northern Ireland |
| Finland | Monaco | Upper Volta |
| France | Morocco | Uruguay |
| Gabon | Netherlands | Yugoslavia |
| German Democratic Republic | New Zealand | Zaire |
| Germany, Federal Republic of | Niger | |
PART II
| Algeria Andorra Bangladesh Columbia Cuba Democratic Kampuchea Ecuador El Salvador Ghana | Guatemala Haiti Kenya Lao People's Democratic Republic Liberia Malawi Mauritius Nicaragua | Nigeria Panama Paraguay Peru Union of Soviet Socialist Republics United States of America Venezuela Zambia |
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SCHEDULE 2 Regulation 5
| Provision amended | Amendments |
| Sub-regulation 3 (1) | Omit “the First Schedule to these Regulations” (wherever occurring) from the definition of “the country of origin”, substitute “Schedule 1” |
| Sub-regulation 4 (1) | Omit “the First Schedule to these Regulations”, substitute “Schedule 1”. |
| Sub-regulation 4 (2) | Omit “the First Schedule to these Regulations”, substitute “Schedule 1”. |
| Sub-regulation 4 (3) | Omit “the First Schedule to these Regulations”, substitute “Schedule 1”. |
| Sub-regulation 4 (4) | Omit “the First Schedule to these Regulations”, substitute “Schedule 1”. |
| Sub-regulation 4 (5) | Omit “the First Schedule to these Regulations”, substitute “Schedule 1”. |
| Regulation 6 | Omit “the Third Schedule” (wherever occurring), substitute “Schedule 3”. |
| Sub-regulation 7 (1) | Omit “the Third Schedule” (wherever occurring), substitute “Schedule 3”. |
| Regulation 8 | Omit “the First Schedule to these Regulations” (wherever occurring), substitute “Schedule 1” |
| Paragraph 9 (1) (a) | Omit “the First Schedule to these Regulations”, substitute “Schedule 1”. |
| Sub-regulation 10 (2) | Omit “the First Schedule to these Regulations”, substitute “Schedule 1”. |
| Sub-regulation 11 (2) | Omit “the First Schedule”, substitute “Schedule 1”. |
| Sub-regulation 11 (3) | Omit “the First Schedule”, substitute “Schedule 1”. |
1. Notified in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette on 25 September 1980.
2. Statutory Rules 1969 No. 60 as amended by Statutory Rules 1969 No. 65; 1974 No. 137.