Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2024C00854:section:44f
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2024C00854
Segment Type: section
Provision Reference: s 44F
Character Range: 158542–159449

44F  Importation and sale etc. of copies of electronic literary or music items
 (1) The copyright in a work:
 (a) that is, or is part of, an electronic literary or music item; 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 electronic literary or music item; or
 (d) does an act mentioned in section 38 involving an article that has embodied in it a non‑infringing copy of the electronic literary or music item and that has been imported into Australia by anyone.
Note: Section 130C 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.

Division 4—Acts not constituting infringements of copyright in literary, dramatic and musical works