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Copyright Act, 1911.
§2 (1)
Infringement of copyright.2.—(1) Copyright[1] in a work shall be deemed to be infringed by any person who, without the consent[2] of the owner[3] of the copyright, does anything the sole right to do which is by this Act conferred on the owner of the copyright[1]: Provided that the following acts shall not constitute an infringement of copyright:—
- (i) Any fair dealing with any work for the purposes of private study, research, criticism, review, or newspaper summary[4]:
Any invasion of the statutory monopoly.The three monopolies conferred by the Act are—
- (1) The right to produce or reproduce in material form;
- (2) The right to perform;
- (3) In the case of an unpublished work the right to publish.
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Sect. 1 (2).
- ↑ Sect. 5 (2).
- ↑ Sect. 5.
- ↑ See also sect. 2 (1) (v) and sect. 20.
- ↑ Lyon v. Knowles (1863), 3 B. & S. 556; Russell v. Briant (1849), 8 C. B. 836; Karno v. Pathé Frères (1909), 100 L. T. 260; Newmark v. National Phonograph Co. (1907), 23 T. L. R. 439; Kelly's Directories v. Gavin and Lloyds, [1901] 1 Ch. 374.