{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/broadcasting-act-1996/section-137",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/broadcasting-act-1996/section-137.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1996/55",
  "legislation_title": "Broadcasting Act 1996",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/broadcasting-act-1996",
  "path": "section/137",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "137",
  "heading": "Avoidance of certain terms relating to use for purpose of news reporting of visual images from broadcast or cable programme.",
  "text": "(1) Any provision in an agreement is void in so far as it purports to prohibit or restrict relevant dealing with a broadcast ... in any circumstances where by virtue of section 30(2) of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 (fair dealing for the purpose of reporting current events) copyright in the broadcast ... is not infringed.\n(2) In subsection (1)—\n(a) “relevant dealing”, in relation to a broadcast, means dealing by communicating to the public any visual images taken from that broadcast, and\n(b) “broadcast” and “ communicating to the public ” have the same meaning as in Part I of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 137(1) repealed (31.10.2003) by The Copyright and Related Rights Regulations 2003 (S.I. 2003/2498), reg. 1, Sch. 2 (with regs. 31-40)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "S. 137(2)(a) substituted (31.10.2003) by The Copyright and Related Rights Regulations 2003 (S.I. 2003/2498), reg. 1, Sch. 1 para. 21(a) (with regs. 31-40)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in s. 137(2)(b) substituted (31.10.2003) by The Copyright and Related Rights Regulations 2003 (S.I. 2003/2498), reg. 1, Sch. 1 para. 21(b) (with regs. 31-40)"
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "1988 c. 48."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1996/55/section/137",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:29:43.309697+00:00",
    "licence": "OGL-UK-3.0",
    "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
    "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
  }
}