Publishers’ association of south africa

Reproduction of building plans by a municipality

12. The person in charge of a municipality may make and supply a copy of a building plan in respect of which the original or a reproduction is lodged for purposes of record at an office of that municipality, if the owner of land upon which a building has been erected in accordance with that plan requires copies of the plan or any portion thereof for the purpose of making additions or alterations to such building.

Exemptions and savings

13. Nothing contained in these regulations:

(1) shall be construed as imposing any liability for copyright infringement upon a library or archive repository or its employees for the unsupervised use of reproducing equipment located on its premises, provided that a copyright warning in terms of regulation 14 is prominently displayed on or in the immediate vicinity of such equipment;

(2) shall absolve any person who uses such reproducing equipment or who requests a copy under regulation 6 from liability for copyright infringement for any such act, or the use of any such copy, if it exceeds the extent of the copying permitted under the Act or these regulations; and

(3) shall in any way affect any contractual obligations assumed at any time by the library or archive repository when it obtained a copy of a work for its collection.

14. (1) A warning of copyright shall consist of a verbatim production of the notice in this sub-regulation in such size and form and displayed in such a manner as to conform to sub-regulation 14(2). Copyright warnings shall be displayed at the place where orders for copies are accepted by libraries and archive repositories and shall be incorporated in all forms supplied by libraries and archive depositories and used by their subscribers or the general public for ordering copies, and where unsupervised equipment is located.