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Section 31: Lending of e-books by public libraries

Digital Economy Act 2017 · 2017 c. 30View on legislation.gov.uk

Part 4: Intellectual Property

In section 5(2) of the Public Lending Right Act 1979 (interpretation) for the definition of "lent out" substitute—

Section 40A of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 (lending of copies by libraries or archives) is amended as follows.

After subsection (1) insert—

In subsection (1A)—

for "subsection (1)" substitute ;" subsections (1) and (1ZA) "
after paragraph (a) insert—aa"e-audio-book" means an audio-book (as defined in paragraph (a)) in a form enabling lending of the book by electronic transmission,.

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