{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/copyright-and-related-rights-regulations-2003/introduction",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/copyright-and-related-rights-regulations-2003/introduction.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2003/2498",
  "legislation_title": "The Copyright and Related Rights Regulations 2003",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/copyright-and-related-rights-regulations-2003",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "COPYRIGHT\nRIGHTS IN PERFORMANCES\nMade 27th September 2003\nLaid before Parliament 3rd October 2003\nComing into force 31st October 2003\nThe Secretary of State, being a Minister designated for the purposes of section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 1972 , in relation to measures relating to copyright and to rights in performances and also in relation to measures relating to the prevention of unauthorised extraction of the contents of a database, and of unauthorised reutilisation of those contents , in exercise of the powers conferred on her by that section, hereby makes the following Regulations:",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "1972 c .68."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M2",
      "text": "SI 1993/595."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M3",
      "text": "SI 1996/3155."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2003/2498/introduction",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T05:57:50.042719+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."
}