{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/copyright-and-related-rights-regulations-2003/regulation-10",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/copyright-and-related-rights-regulations-2003/regulation-10.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": "regulation/10",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "10",
  "heading": "Amendment of provisions relating to criticism, review and news reporting",
  "text": "(1) Section 30 shall be amended as follows—\n(a) in subsection (1) after the word “acknowledgement” there shall be inserted “ and provided that the work has been made available to the public ”;\n(b) after subsection (1) there shall be inserted—\n“(1A) For the purposes of subsection (1) a work has been made available to the public if it has been made available by any means, including—\n(a) the issue of copies to the public;\n(b) making the work available by means of an electronic retrieval system;\n(c) the rental or lending of copies of the work to the public;\n(d) the performance, exhibition, playing or showing of the work in public;\n(e) the communication to the public of the work,\nbut in determining generally for the purposes of that subsection whether a work has been made available to the public no account shall be taken of any unauthorised act.”;\n(c) in subsection (3) for the words from “, broadcast” to “programme” there shall be substituted “ or broadcast where this would be impossible for reasons of practicality or otherwise ”.\n(2) For paragraph 2(1) of Schedule 2 there shall be substituted—\n“\n2 (1) Fair dealing with a performance or recording for the purpose of criticism or review, of that or another performance or recording, or of a work, does not infringe any of the rights conferred by Part 2 provided that the performance or recording has been made available to the public.\n(1A) Fair dealing with a performance or recording for the purpose of reporting current events does not infringe any of the rights conferred by Part 2.”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2003/2498/regulation/10",
    "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."
}