Hong Kong Ordinances

COPYRIGHT ORDINANCE - SECT 45

Reprographic copying made by educational establishments or pupils of passages from published works

(Past version on 30/06/1997).

Reprographic copying made by educational establishments or pupils of passages
from published works (Amended 15 of 2007 s. 16)

(1) Reprographic copies of artistic works or of passages from published
literary, dramatic or musical works may, to a reasonable extent, be made by or
on behalf of an educational establishment for the purposes of giving
instruction, or by a pupil for the purposes of receiving instruction in a
specified course of study provided by an educational  establishment, without
infringing any copyright in the work, or in the typographical arrangement.
(Amended 15 of 2007 s. 16)

(2) Copying is not authorized by this section if, or to the extent that,
licences under licensing schemes are available authorizing the copying in
question and the person making the copies knew or ought to have been aware of
that fact.

(3) Where a copy which would otherwise be an infringing copy is made in
accordance with this section but is subsequently dealt with, it is treated as
an infringing copy for the purposes of that dealing, and if that
dealing infringes copyright, for all subsequent purposes.
For this purpose "dealt with" (進行交易) means sold or let for hire or
offered or exposed for sale or hire. [ cf. 1988 c. 48 s. 36 U.K.]

"dealt with" (進行交易)