Section 34: Copyright etc where broadcast retransmitted by cable

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

Part 4: Intellectual Property

In the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 the following are repealed—

sections 73 and 73A (copyright not infringed where broadcast retransmitted by cable);
paragraphs 19 and 19A of Schedule 2 (rights in relation to performance or recording not infringed where broadcast retransmitted by cable).

In consequence the following are repealed or revoked—

in the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988—
in section 134, subsection (3A) and, in subsection (1), the words "Subject to subsection (3A)";
section 149(za);
section 205B(1)(cc);
in the Broadcasting Act 1996, section 138 and Schedule 9;
in the Copyright and Related Rights Regulations 2003 (S.I. 2003/2498), regulation 22.

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