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, 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) 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).

  (2) Subsection (1) applies subject to Parts 3 and 8.

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

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