People often ask me: How much use of a work in which copyright subsists will make an unauthorised user, an infringer of copyright? The right of control which belongs to the owner of copyright in a literary work, musical work, artistic work, cinematograph film or video is with respect to the whole or a substantial part of the work, either in its original form or in any form recognisably derived from it. In clear terms, such a copyright owner has control over the use of either the whole work or…
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