Documents open to public inspection do not infringe copyright
226 Documents open to public inspection do not infringe copyright
If a document mentioned in subsection (2) is open to public inspection, doing any of the following in relation to the whole or part of the document does not constitute an infringement of any copyright subsisting under the Copyright Act 1968 in any literary or artistic work:
reproducing the document in two‑dimensional form;
communicating (within the meaning of that Act) the document to the public;
translating (within the meaning of that Act) the document.
The documents are:
a provisional specification; and
a complete specification; and
a prescribed document.
If a reproduction of an unpublished work is made as a result of a document being open to public inspection, the supply or communication of the reproduction does not constitute the publication of the work for the purposes of the Copyright Act 1968.
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