Copyright and Related Rights Act, 2000

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Copying by librarians or archivists: replacement copies of works.

65.—(1) The librarian or archivist of a prescribed library or prescribed archive may, where the prescribed conditions are complied with, make a copy of a work in the permanent collection of the library or archive in order—

(a) to preserve or replace that work by placing the copy in the permanent collection of that library or archive in addition to or in place of that work, or

(b) to replace in the permanent collection of another prescribed library or prescribed archive a work which has been lost, destroyed or damaged,

without infringing the copyright in the work, in any illustrations accompanying the work or in the typographical arrangement.

(2) This section shall only apply where it is not reasonably practicable to purchase a copy of the work concerned for the purposes of subsection (1).