New Zealand Legislation: Acts

19 Qualification by reference to country of first publication

• (1) A work (being a literary, dramatic, musical, or artistic work, a sound recording, a film, or a typographical arrangement of a published edition) qualifies for copyright if it is first published—

  • (a) In New Zealand; or

  • (b) In a prescribed foreign country.

  (2) For the purposes of this section, publication in one country shall not be regarded as other than the first publication by reason of simultaneous publication elsewhere; and for this purpose publication elsewhere within the previous 30 days shall be treated as simultaneous.

  Compare: Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 (UK), s 155; 1962 No 33 ss 7(2), 13(2), 14(2), 17(1)