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Section 64 permits the temporary reproduction of a work, notwithstanding the reproduction right in section 10(1)(a), where the reproduction is made in the process of a digital transmission of the work or an act of making a digitally stored work perceptible and is caused by a person entitled to make it by authorisation of the copyright owner or by operation of law.

Section 65, read with section 66's fair-practice test, permits quotation from a work lawfully made available to the public, and section 69 separately permits reproducing a newspaper or periodical article on current economic, political or religious topics, and short excerpts of a work seen or heard while reporting current events, without the copyright owner's authorisation, subject to an obligation to indicate the source and the author's name.

The Act enumerates a closed list of specific permitted acts of this kind rather than an open-ended fair-use standard or a text-and-data-mining-specific exception, so an act of automated reproduction not falling within one of the enumerated exceptions is not excused by them.

Section 6(1)(b) protects, as works, collections of works, collections of mere data (databases) whether in machine-readable or other form, and collections of expressions of folklore, provided such collections are original by reason of the selection or arrangement of their contents, creating no separate sui generis database right beyond ordinary copyright over an original compilation.

Section 63(1) permits the private reproduction of a published work in a single copy without the copyright owner's authorisation where the reproduction is made by a person exclusively for his own personal purposes.

Section 63(2)(c) withholds that permission from the reproduction of the whole or a substantial part of a database in digital form, alongside withholding it from architectural reproduction, whole-book or whole-recording reprography, and any reproduction that would conflict with a normal exploitation of the work or unreasonably prejudice the copyright owner's legitimate interests.

Section 65(1) permits the reproduction, in the form of quotation, of a short part of a published work that has been made available, without the copyright owner's authorisation, provided the reproduction is compatible with fair practice and does not exceed the extent justified by the purpose. Section 65(2) requires the quotation to be accompanied by an indication of source and the name of the author, if his name appears in the work from which the quotation is taken.

Section 69(a) permits reproducing, broadcasting or otherwise communicating to the public an article published in a newspaper or periodical on a current economic, political or religious topic, or a broadcast work of the same character, unless the right to authorise reproduction is expressly reserved by the copyright owner.

Section 69(b) separately permits reproducing and broadcasting or otherwise communicating to the public short excerpts of a work seen or heard in the course of reporting current events, to the extent justified by that purpose.

Section 51 makes willful infringement of a reproduction right protected under the Act an offence, punishable on conviction, in the case of an offence involving making or dealing with infringing copies, by a fine of two thousand five hundred dollars for each copy for a first offence and, for a subsequent offence, that fine and imprisonment for twelve months, and in the case of any other offence under the section, by a fine of fifteen thousand dollars for a first offence and, for a subsequent offence, that fine and imprisonment for six months.