Hong Kong Ordinances

COPYRIGHT ORDINANCE - SECT 47

Copying by librarians: articles in periodicals

(1) The librarian of a specified library may, if the prescribed conditions are
complied with, make and supply a copy of an article in a periodical without
infringing any copyright in the text, in any illustrations accompanying the
text or in the typographical arrangement.

(2) The prescribed conditions must include the following-

   (a)  that copies are supplied only to persons satisfying the librarian that
        they require them for purposes of research or private study, and will
        not use them for any other purpose;

   (b)  that no person is furnished with more than one copy of the same
        article or with copies of more than one article contained in the same
        issue of a periodical; and

   (c)  that persons to whom copies are supplied are required to pay for them
        a sum not less than the cost (including a contribution to the general
        expenses of the library) attributable to their production. [
        cf. 1988 c. 48 s. 38 U.K.]