New Zealand Legislation: Acts

16 Acts restricted by copyright

• (1) The owner of the copyright in a work has the exclusive right to do, in accordance with sections 30 to 34 of this Act, the following acts in New Zealand:

  • (a) To copy the work:

  • (b) To issue copies of the work to the public, whether by sale or otherwise:

  • (c) To perform the work in public:

  • (d) To play the work in public:

  • (e) To show the work in public:

  • (f) to communicate the work to the public:

  • (g) To make an adaptation of the work:

  • (h) To do any of the acts referred to in any of paragraphs (a) to (f) of this subsection in relation to an adaptation of the work:

  • (i) To authorise another person to do any of the acts referred to in any of paragraphs (a) to (h) of this subsection.

  (2) Subsection (1) of this section applies subject to Parts 3 and 8 of this Act.

  Compare: Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988, s 16(1), (4) (UK); 1962 No 33 ss 6(1), 7(3), 7(4), 13(5), 14(5), 17(3)

  Section 16(1)(f): substituted, on 31 October 2008, by section 12 of the Copyright (New Technologies) Amendment Act 2008 (2008 No 27).