Copyright Act 1968

This section has effect subject to this Subdivision.

A person infringes an author’s right of integrity of authorship in respect of a work if the person subjects the work, or authorises the work to be subjected, to derogatory treatment.

If a literary, dramatic or musical work has been subjected to derogatory treatment of a kind mentioned in paragraph (a) of the definition of derogatory treatment in section 195AJ that infringes the author’s right of integrity of authorship in respect of the work, a person infringes the author’s right of integrity of authorship in respect of the work if the person does any of the following in respect of the work as so derogatorily treated:

reproduces it in a material form;

publishes it;

performs it in public;

communicates it to the public;

makes an adaptation of it.

If an artistic work has been subjected to derogatory treatment of a kind mentioned in paragraph (a) of the definition of derogatory treatment in section 195AK that infringes the author’s right of integrity of authorship in respect of the work, a person infringes the author’s right of integrity of authorship in respect of the work if the person does any of the following in respect of the work as so derogatorily treated:

reproduces it in a material form;

publishes it;

communicates it to the public.

If a cinematograph film has been subjected to derogatory treatment of a kind mentioned in paragraph (a) of the definition of derogatory treatment in section 195AL that infringes the author’s right of integrity of authorship in respect of the film, a person infringes the author’s right of integrity of authorship in respect of the film if the person does any of the following in respect of the film as so derogatorily treated:

makes a copy of it;

exhibits it;

communicates it to the public.