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To copy, or not to copy
Bell Gully partner Alan Ringwood discusses Copyright Licensing v University of Auckland (2002) which is a test case brought to clarify the extent to which universities are entitled to copy copyright material without infringing copyright.
The case affects a range of organisations in the education sector along with others such as government agencies, local bodies and corporates, who distribute copyright information internally. In laying down when it was permissible to copy copyright works and the process that must be followed, the case introduced a number of inefficiencies for those seeking to copy and distribute copyright works.
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This article was first published in the New Zealand Business Law Bulletins, Bulletin 1, May 2002.
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