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Explainer: What is legal and what is not under Copyright (Amendment) Bill 2014

Will sharing, or even viewing, modified or adapted pictures attract legal liability? The new Section 28A(5) under the Amendment Bill specifies that “a person does not communicate a work to the public if the person does not determine the content of the communication”. Therefore, simply sharing a hyperlink, a Facebook post, or another person’s tweet will not constitute […]