No. 26
Copyright
Provided that the Minister may decide that some institutions in
the sector of archives, libraries and museums automatically receive
the information necessary to ensure that circumvention of
technological protection measures to enable lawful reproduction is
possible.
87.__(1) The following acts shall be considered unlawful and an
infringement of the exclusive rights accorded to owners of works
under this Act__
(a) the removal or alteration of any electronic rights
management information from a copy of a protected work or
other protected subject matter without authority; and
(b) the distribution or import for distribution to the public,
broadcasting or other communication to the public, or public
performance of protected works or other protected subject matter,
by a person knowing or having reason to know that electronic
rights management information has been removed or altered
without authority.
(2) In the application of sections 94 to 97, any copy from which
electronic rights management information has been removed or in
which such information has been altered in contravention of
subsection (1) shall be assimilated to infringing copies.
(3) For purposes of this Part, “rights management information”
means any information which identifies any of the following__
(a) the author of the work;
(b) the work;
(c) the expression of folklore;
(d) the performer;
(e) the performance of the performer;
(f) the producer of the sound recording or audiovisual fixation;
(g) the sound recording or audiovisual fixation;
(h) the broadcasting organization;
(i) the broadcast; or
(j) the owner of any right protected under this Act, and
information about the terms and conditions for use of the work,
the expression of folklore, the performance, the sound recording,
the broadcast or the typographical arrangement, and any numbers
or code that represent such information, when any of these items
of information is attached to a copy of a work, an expression of
folklore, a fixed performance, a sound recording or a broadcast or
a typographical arrangement, or appears in connection with the
broadcasting, communication to the public, or public display or
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