Copyright Act 2018, Quoting from Work exception
Copyright Act 2018 (Act No. 8 of 2018), s. 16 (Quoting from Work)
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The Copyright Act 2018 (Act No. 8 of 2018) is Kiribati's general copyright statute, assented to by the Beretitenti on 6 November 2018 and administered by the Minister for Commerce, Industry and Co-operatives. It repeals the earlier Copyright Ordinance (Chapter 16).
Its own arrangement of sections includes one titled 'Act binds the Republic', immediately before the section on the Act's application, and lists 'Quoting from work' as a named exception to copyright infringement, at section 16, alongside other named exceptions for research or private study, temporary copying, educational use, translation, legal purposes, copying by a cultural institution, and copying to report current events to the public, running from sections 14 to 21, but the operative text setting out each exception's conditions is not reproduced in the available copies of the Act.
An intentional infringement of a protected right for a profit-making purpose carries, on conviction, a maximum fine of $50,000 or imprisonment of 7 years, or both, for an individual, and a maximum fine of $100,000 for any other person, under section 44. The Act's own text states that it commences on a date appointed by the Minister by notice; no commencement notice has been located.
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