19 - Reprography

Abstract

This chapter focuses on reprography, which is not an expression that appears anywhere in the copyright act. It is a word that has been introduced into common English usage recently in effect it means making reproductions of written works by any means. A person, who makes an unauthorized copy, unless making it under instructions as an employee, is liable for breach of copyright to the owner of the work copied unless one of the exceptions applies. The copyright act provides that no fair dealing with a literary, dramatic, or musical work for the purposes of research or private study shall constitute an infringement of the copyright in the work. The fair dealing provisions do not extend to the making of copies of the typographical arrangements in published editions that are still in copyright.