# Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988, Section 59: Public reading or recitation.

Extent: E+W+S+N.I.

(1) The reading or recitation in public by one person of a reasonable extract from a published literary or dramatic work does not infringe any copyright in the work if it is accompanied by a sufficient acknowledgement.
(2) Copyright in a work is not infringed by the making of a sound recording, or the communication to the public, of a reading or recitation which by virtue of subsection (1) does not infringe copyright in the work, provided that the recording or communication to the public consists mainly of material in relation to which it is not necessary to rely on that subsection.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1988/48/section/59 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/copyright-designs-and-patents-act-1988/section-59
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