# The Copyright and Related Rights Regulations 2003, Regulation 10: Amendment of provisions relating to criticism, review and news reporting


(1) Section 30 shall be amended as follows—
(a) in subsection (1) after the word “acknowledgement” there shall be inserted “ and provided that the work has been made available to the public ”;
(b) after subsection (1) there shall be inserted—
“(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—
(a) the issue of copies to the public;
(b) making the work available by means of an electronic retrieval system;
(c) the rental or lending of copies of the work to the public;
(d) the performance, exhibition, playing or showing of the work in public;
(e) the communication to the public of the work,
but 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.”;
(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 ”.
(2) For paragraph 2(1) of Schedule 2 there shall be substituted—
“
2 (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.
(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.”.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2003/2498/regulation/10 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/copyright-and-related-rights-regulations-2003/regulation-10
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