Propose a change

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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As published

5B Films.

(1) In this Part “film” means a recording on any medium from which a moving image may by any means be produced. (2) The sound track accompanying a film shall be treated as part of the film for the purposes of this Part. (3) Without prejudice to the generality of subsection (2), where that subsection applies— (a) references in this Part to showing a film include playing the film sound track to accompany the film, (b) references in this Part to playing a sound recording, or to communicating a sound recording to the public, do not include playing or communicating the film sound track to accompany the film, (c) references in this Part to copying a work, so far as they apply to a sound recording, do not include copying the film sound track to accompany the film, and (d) references in this Part to the issuing, rental or lending of copies of a work, so far as they apply to a sound recording, do not include the issuing, rental or lending of copies of the sound track to accompany the film. (4) Copyright does not subsist in a film which is, or to the extent that it is, a copy taken from a previous film. (5) Nothing in this section affects any copyright subsisting in a film sound track as a sound recording.

Your change, as a redline

5B Films.

(1) In this Part “film” means a recording on any medium from which a moving image may by any means be produced. (2) The sound track accompanying a film shall be treated as part of the film for the purposes of this Part. (3) Without prejudice to the generality of subsection (2), where that subsection applies— (a) references in this Part to showing a film include playing the film sound track to accompany the film, (b) references in this Part to playing a sound recording, or to communicating a sound recording to the public, do not include playing or communicating the film sound track to accompany the film, (c) references in this Part to copying a work, so far as they apply to a sound recording, do not include copying the film sound track to accompany the film, and (d) references in this Part to the issuing, rental or lending of copies of a work, so far as they apply to a sound recording, do not include the issuing, rental or lending of copies of the sound track to accompany the film. (4) Copyright does not subsist in a film which is, or to the extent that it is, a copy taken from a previous film. (5) Nothing in this section affects any copyright subsisting in a film sound track as a sound recording.

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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