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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What to do with it
As published

83 Infringement of right by possessing or dealing with infringing article.

(1) The right conferred by section 80 (right to object to derogatory treatment of work) is also infringed by a person who— (a) possesses in the course of a business, or (b) sells or lets for hire, or offers or exposes for sale or hire, or (c) in the course of a business exhibits in public or distributes, or (d) distributes otherwise than in the course of a business so as to affect prejudicially the honour or reputation of the author or director, an article which is, and which he knows or has reason to believe is, an infringing article. (2) An “infringing article” means a work or a copy of a work which— (a) has been subjected to derogatory treatment within the meaning of section 80, and (b) has been or is likely to be the subject of any of the acts mentioned in that section in circumstances infringing that right.

Your change, as a redline

83 Infringement of right by possessing or dealing with infringing article.

(1) The right conferred by section 80 (right to object to derogatory treatment of work) is also infringed by a person who— (a) possesses in the course of a business, or (b) sells or lets for hire, or offers or exposes for sale or hire, or (c) in the course of a business exhibits in public or distributes, or (d) distributes otherwise than in the course of a business so as to affect prejudicially the honour or reputation of the author or director, an article which is, and which he knows or has reason to believe is, an infringing article. (2) An “infringing article” means a work or a copy of a work which— (a) has been subjected to derogatory treatment within the meaning of section 80, and (b) has been or is likely to be the subject of any of the acts mentioned in that section in circumstances infringing that right.

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

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