Section 36B
Rights management information
(a)
remove or alter any electronic rights management information without authority; or
(b)
distribute, import for distribution or communicate to the public, without authority, of works or copies of works knowing that electronic rights management information has been removed or altered without authority,
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and knowing or having reasonable grounds to know that such act will induce, enable, facilitate or conceal an infringement of any rights under this Act.
(2)
Subsection (1) does not apply if the removal or alteration of any electronic rights management information without authority is—
(a)
in relation to anything lawfully done for the sole purpose of —
(i)
law enforcement;
(ii)
national security; or
(iii)
performing a statutory function; or
(b)
done by a library, an archive or an educational institution for the sole purpose of making an acquisition decision in relation to a work in which copyright subsists.
(3)
For the purposes of this section and section 41, “rights management information” means information which identifies the work, the author of the work, the owner of any right in the work, the performer or the terms and conditions of use of the work, any number or codes that represent such information, when any of these items is attached to a copy of a work or appears in connection with the communication of a work to the public.