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COPYRIGHT ACT 1968 - SECT 44E

Importation and sale etc. of copies of computer programs

  (1)   The copyright in a literary work:

  (a)   that is a computer program; and

  (b)   that has been published in Australia or a qualifying country;

is not infringed by a person who:

  (c)   imports into Australia an article that has embodied in it a non - infringing copy of the program; or

  (d)   does an act mentioned in section   38 involving an article that has embodied in it a non - infringing copy of the program and that has been imported into Australia by anyone.

Note:   Section   130B deals with the burden of proof a defendant bears in a civil action for infringement of copyright.

  (2)   The definition of article in section   38 does not affect this section.


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