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Copyright Act 2013, economic rights, computer program copying, and technological protection measures

Copyright Act 2013 No. 8 (Cook Islands), ss. 8, 9, 22, 44 (economic rights, computer program copying, and technological protection measures)

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In force since .

A copyright and text and data mining (TDM) rule binding public and private bodies.

Obligation class
Access restriction, TDM
Audit expectation
none

What it requires

  • Do not copy, reproduce, or communicate to the public a substantial part of a copyrighted work without the owner's authorisation, unless a section 14 to 25 exception applies, such as the section 22 exception for a single copy or adaptation of a computer program made to use it for the purpose it was obtained, for archival purposes, or to replace a lost or destroyed copy.NIST AI RMFMAP 4.1
  • Do not manufacture, import for sale or rental, or supply a device or means designed to circumvent a technological measure applied to a work, sound recording, or communication to the public to prevent or restrict its copying.no control in the NIST AI RMF

These lines are LexLint's reading of the law's text.

In the frameworks

NIST AI RMF
  • MAP 4.1Approaches for mapping AI technology and legal risks of its components – including the use of third-party data or software – are in place, followed, and documented, as are risks of infringement of a third party’s intellectual property or other rights.
NIST AI 600-1
OWASP LLM Top 10
OWASP Agentic Top 10
  • ASI03Identity and Privilege Abuse
MIT mitigations Draft
  • 2.1Model & Infrastructure Security
  • 3.2Data Governance
  • 4.1System Documentation
FINOS AIGF
ETSI EN 304 223
  • 5.1.2-6Access the AI system gets to other systems and data sources is minimal and risk assessed.
  • 5.2.4-2.1Minimum record for training data: its source, such as a page URL, and when it was collected.

Our reading of where this law's duties sit in each framework, and in the NIST AI RMF, line by line beside each duty above. It never says that running a control meets the law. How we read a framework against the law

Identifiers refer to ETSI EN 304 223 V2.1.1 (2025-12), © ETSI 2025, all rights reserved. ETSI owns the standard; no ETSI text (titles or sentences) is reproduced here. The standard is free to download from ETSI.

If you get it wrong

Criminal exposureYes

Criminal exposure note

Section 44 makes it an offence to manufacture or import for sale or rental a device or means designed to circumvent a work's copy-protection technology, or to enable unauthorised reception of an encrypted broadcast, punishable on conviction by a fine not exceeding $50,000 or imprisonment for not more than 2 years, or both, for an individual, or a fine not exceeding $100,000 for any other person.

Penalty structure

Section 44(2) caps the fine for the technological-protection-measure offence at $100,000 for a body other than an individual, or $50,000 (or up to 2 years' imprisonment, or both) for an individual. The Act states these amounts in Cook Islands dollars, at par with the New Zealand dollar.

Rule
Fixed only
As of
Currency
NZD
Fixed cap
100,000

What it makes you log

Logging duty

Sections 8 and 9 set out the owner's exclusive economic rights and their duration, section 22 lets the lawful owner of a program make a single copy or adaptation for use, archive or replacement and requires a copy to be destroyed once its possession is no longer lawful (a limit on the copy and not a record), and section 44 makes it an offence to manufacture or import a device designed to circumvent a copying-protection measure. None calls for a log or record, and none names an audit, an auditor or a person who may demand a record. The sections state no territorial hook.

Kind
None
As of

What this law does

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Research summary

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Section 5 binds the Crown, and section 8 gives the owner of copyright in a work the exclusive right to copy, publish, perform or display in public, distribute, adapt, and communicate the work to the public. Section 9 makes it an infringement to do any of those acts without the owner's permission and other than under one of the exceptions in sections 14 to 25.

Section 3 defines a literary work to include a computer program, and a collective work to include a compilation of data, including in electronic or other machine-readable form, so a database attracts protection here only as a collective work under ordinary copyright, not under a separate sui generis database right.

Section 22 lets the lawful owner of a copy of a computer program make a single copy or adaptation without the copyright owner's authorisation, but only to use the program for the purpose it was obtained, for archival purposes, or to replace a lost or destroyed copy, and any such copy must be destroyed once it no longer meets those conditions.

Section 44 makes it an offence to manufacture or import for sale or rental a device or means designed to circumvent a technological measure that prevents or restricts copying of a work, sound recording, or communication to the public, or that enables reception of an encrypted broadcast by a person not entitled to receive it.

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