Amendment status not verified — confirm the current text below against the official source.
Subs. by Act 38 of 1994, s. 16, for the proviso (w.e.f. 10-5-1995). 33 1[(a) a fair dealing with any work, not being a computer programme, for the purpose of— (i) private or personal use, including research; (ii) criticism or review, whether of that work or of any other work; (iii) the reporting of current events and current affairs, including the reporting of a lecture delivered in public; Explanation.—The storing of any work in any electronic medium for the purposes mentioned in this clause, including the incidental storage of any computer programme which is not itself in infringing copy for the said purposes, shall not constitute infringement of copyright.] 2[(aa) the making of copies or adaptation of a computer programme by the lawful possessor of a copy of such computer programme, from such copy— (i) in order to utilise the computer programme for the purpose for which it was supplied; or (ii) to make back-up copies purely as a temporary protection against loss, destruction or damage in order only to utilise the computer programme for the purpose for which it was supplied;] 3[(ab) the doing of any act necessary to obtain information essential for operating inter-operability of an independently created computer programmes with other programmer by a lawful possessor of a computer programme provided that such information is not otherwise readily available; (ac) the observation, study or test of functioning of the computer programme in order to determine the ideas and principles which underline any elements of the programme while performing such acts necessary for the functions for which the computer programme was supplied; (ad) the making of copies or adaptation of the computer programme from a personally legally obtained copy for non-commercial personal use;] 4[(b) the transient or incidental storage of a work or performance purely in the technical process of electronic transmission or communication to the public; (c) transient or incidental storage of a work or performance for the purpose of providing electronic links, access or integration, where such links, access or integration has not been expressly prohibited by the right holder, unless the person responsible is aware or has reasonable grounds for believing that such storage is of an infringing copy: Provided that if the person responsible for the storage of the copy has received a written complaint from the owner of copyright in the work, complaining that such transient or incidental storage is an infringement, such person responsible for the storage shall refrain from facilitating such access for a period of twenty-one days or till he receives an order from the competent court refraining from facilitation access and in case no such order is received before the expiry of such period of twenty-one days, he may continue to provide the facility of such access; (d) the reproduction of any work for the purpose of a judicial proceeding or for the purpose of a report of a judicial proceeding; (e) the reproduction or publication of any work prepared by the Secretariat of a Legislature or, where the legistanure consists of two Houses, by the Secretariat of either House of the Legislature, exclusively for the use of the members of that Legislature; (f) the reproduction of any work in a certified copy made or supplied in accordance with any law for the time being in force;