{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/copyright-and-related-rights-regulations-1996/regulation-25",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/copyright-and-related-rights-regulations-1996/regulation-25.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1996/2967",
  "legislation_title": "The Copyright and Related Rights Regulations 1996",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/copyright-and-related-rights-regulations-1996",
  "path": "regulation/25",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "25",
  "heading": "Introductory",
  "text": "(1) In this Part—\n“commencement” means the commencement of these Regulations; and\n“existing”, in relation to a work or performance, means made or given before commencement.\n(2) For the purposes of this Part a work of which the making extended over a period shall be taken to have been made when its making was completed.\n(3) In this Part a “new right” means a right arising by virtue of these Regulations, in relation to a copyright work or a qualifying performance, to authorise or prohibit an act.\nThe expression does not include—\n(a) a right corresponding to a right which existed immediately before commencement, or\n(b) a right to remuneration arising by virtue of these Regulations.\n(4) Expressions used in this Part have the same meaning in relation to copyright as they have in Part I of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988, and in relation to performances as in Part II of that Act.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 25 in force at 1.12.1996, see reg. 1(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1988 c. 48."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1996/2967/regulation/25",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:31:28.393911+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "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."
}