(1) Copyright in a work is infringed by a person who, other than pursuant to a copyright licence, does any restricted act.
(2) References in this Act to the doing of a restricted act are to the doing of that act—
(a) in relation to the work as a whole or any substantial part of it; and
(b) either directly or indirectly;—
and it is immaterial whether any intervening acts themselves infringe copyright.
(3) This Part is subject to Parts 3 and 8.
Compare: 1962 No 33 ss 3(1); Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 s 16(2), (3), (4) (UK)