Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

COPYRIGHT ACT 1968 - SECT 195AG

  (1)   If the work is a literary, dramatic, musical or artistic work that has been altered by a person other than the author of the work, it is an act of false attribution in relation to the author of the work:

  (a)   to deal with the work as so altered, as being the unaltered work of the author; or

  (b)   to deal with a reproduction of the work as so altered, as being a reproduction of the unaltered work of the author;

if, to the knowledge of the attributor, it is not the unaltered work or a reproduction of the unaltered work, as the case may be, of the author.

  (2)   Subsection   (1) does not apply if:

  (a)   the effect of the alteration is insubstantial; or

  (b)   the alteration was required by law to be made, or was otherwise necessary to avoid a breach of any law.