Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2024C00854:section:183:p2
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2024C00854
Segment Type: section
Provision Reference: s 183 (pt 2/2)
Character Range: 692403–693980

State may do acts comprised in a copyright is inoperative with respect to the doing of those acts, after the commencement of this Act, under subsection (1), unless the agreement or licence has been approved by:
 (a) in the case of the Commonwealth—the Minister; or
 (b) in the case of a State—the Minister of the State with responsibility for copyright.
 (7) Where an article is sold and the sale is not, by virtue of subsection (1), an infringement of a copyright, the purchaser of the article, and a person claiming through him or her, is entitled to deal with the article as if the Commonwealth or State were the owner of that copyright.
 (8) An act done under subsection (1) does not constitute publication of a work or other subject‑matter and shall not be taken into account in the application of any provision of this Act relating to the duration of any copyright.
 (9) Where an exclusive licence is in force in relation to any copyright, the preceding subsections of this section have effect as if any reference in those subsections to the owner of the copyright were a reference to the exclusive licensee.
 (11) The reproduction, copying or communication of the whole or a part of a work or other subject‑matter for the educational purposes of an educational institution of, or under the control of, the Commonwealth, a State, the Australian Capital Territory or the Northern Territory shall, for the purposes of this section, be deemed not to be an act done for the services of the Commonwealth, that State, the Australian Capital Territory or the Northern Territory.