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Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988

Write the words of this act the way you think they should read. Solon shows your change as a redline against the published text and pins it to that exact text, so it can never be applied to wording you did not see.

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205G Exceptions to right

(1) The right conferred by section 205F (right to object to derogatory treatment of performance) is subject to the following exceptions. (2) The right does not apply in relation to any performance given for the purposes of reporting current events. (3) The right is not infringed by modifications made to a performance which are consistent with normal editorial or production practice. (4) Subject to subsection (5), the right is not infringed by anything done for the purpose of— (a) avoiding the commission of an offence, (b) complying with a duty imposed by or under an enactment, or (c) in the case of the British Broadcasting Corporation, avoiding the inclusion in a programme broadcast by them of anything which offends against good taste or decency or which is likely to encourage or incite crime or lead to disorder or to be offensive to public feeling. (5) Where— (a) the performer is identified in a manner likely to bring his identity to the notice of a person seeing or hearing the performance as modified by the act in question; or (b) he has previously been identified in or on copies of a sound recording issued to the public, subsection (4) applies only if there is sufficient disclaimer. (6) In subsection (5) “sufficient disclaimer”, in relation to an act capable of infringing the right, means a clear and reasonably prominent indication— (a) given in a manner likely to bring it to the notice of a person seeing or hearing the performance as modified by the act in question, and (b) if the performer is identified at the time of the act, appearing along with the identification, that the modifications were made without the performer's consent.

Your change, as a redline

205G Exceptions to right

(1) The right conferred by section 205F (right to object to derogatory treatment of performance) is subject to the following exceptions. (2) The right does not apply in relation to any performance given for the purposes of reporting current events. (3) The right is not infringed by modifications made to a performance which are consistent with normal editorial or production practice. (4) Subject to subsection (5), the right is not infringed by anything done for the purpose of— (a) avoiding the commission of an offence, (b) complying with a duty imposed by or under an enactment, or (c) in the case of the British Broadcasting Corporation, avoiding the inclusion in a programme broadcast by them of anything which offends against good taste or decency or which is likely to encourage or incite crime or lead to disorder or to be offensive to public feeling. (5) Where— (a) the performer is identified in a manner likely to bring his identity to the notice of a person seeing or hearing the performance as modified by the act in question; or (b) he has previously been identified in or on copies of a sound recording issued to the public, subsection (4) applies only if there is sufficient disclaimer. (6) In subsection (5) “sufficient disclaimer”, in relation to an act capable of infringing the right, means a clear and reasonably prominent indication— (a) given in a manner likely to bring it to the notice of a person seeing or hearing the performance as modified by the act in question, and (b) if the performer is identified at the time of the act, appearing along with the identification, that the modifications were made without the performer's consent.

One line that says what changes, such as "Halve the dog tax".

Who it helps, what it costs, what it fixes. It is what persuades people to support it.

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