{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/copyright-designs-and-patents-act-1988/section-182B",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/copyright-designs-and-patents-act-1988/section-182B.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1988/48",
  "legislation_title": "Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/copyright-designs-and-patents-act-1988",
  "path": "section/182B",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "182B",
  "heading": "Consent required for issue of copies to public.",
  "text": "(1) A performer’s rights are infringed by a person who, without his consent, issues to the public copies of a recording of the whole or any substantial part of a qualifying performance.\n(2) References in this Part to the issue to the public of copies of a recording are to—\n(a) the act of putting into circulation in the UK-EEA area copies not previously put into circulation in the UK-EEA area by or with the consent of the performer, or\n(b) the act of putting into circulation outside the UK-EEA area copies not previously put into circulation in the UK-EEA area or elsewhere.\n(3) References in this Part to the issue to the public of copies of a recording do not include—\n(a) any subsequent distribution, sale, hiring or loan of copies previously put into circulation (but see section 182C: consent required for rental or lending), or\n(b) any subsequent importation of such copies into the United Kingdom or an EEA state,\nexcept so far as paragraph (a) of subsection (2) applies to putting into circulation in the UK-EEA area copies previously put into circulation outside the UK-EEA area.\n(3A) In this section “UK-EEA area” means the United Kingdom and the EEA, taken together.\n(4) References in this Part to the issue of copies of a recording of a performance include the issue of the original recording of the live performance.\n(5) The right of a performer under this section to authorise or prohibit the issue of copies to the public is referred to in this Chapter as “distribution right”.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Ss. 182-205B become Pt. 2 Ch. 2 (1.2.2006) by virtue of The Performances (Moral Rights, etc.) Regulations 2006 (S.I. 2006/18), reg. 4(4) (with reg. 8)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "S. 182B inserted (1.12.1996) by S.I. 1996/2967, reg. 20(2) (with Pt. III)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in s. 182B(2) substituted (31.1.2020) by The Intellectual Property (Exhaustion of Rights) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/265), regs. 1, 4(4)(a); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Word in s. 182B(3)(b) substituted (31.1.2020) by The Intellectual Property (Exhaustion of Rights) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/265), regs. 1, 4(4)(b)(i); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Words in s. 182B(3) substituted (31.1.2020) by The Intellectual Property (Exhaustion of Rights) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/265), regs. 1, 4(4)(b)(ii); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "S. 182B(3A) inserted (31.1.2020) by The Intellectual Property (Exhaustion of Rights) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/265), regs. 1, 4(4)(c); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F7",
      "text": "Words in s. 182B(5) substituted (1.2.2006) by The Performances (Moral Rights, etc.) Regulations 2006 (S.I. 2006/18), reg. 2, Sch. para. 8 (with reg. 8)"
    },
    {
      "type": "X",
      "label": "X1",
      "text": "The insertion of the new headings \"Chapter 1 Introductory\", \"Chapter 2 Economic Rights\", \"Chapter 3 Moral Rights\" and \"Chapter 4 Qualification for Protection, Extent and Interpretation\" in Pt. II on 1.2.2006 gives rise to a change in the structure of this legislation on SLD which breaks the continuity of historical versions of the existing provisions which are now brought under those new headings."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1988/48/section/182B",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:47:40.311838+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."
}