Section 30 — Copyright Act: Literary collections
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The publication in a collection, mainly composed of non-copyright matter, intended for the use of educational institutions, and so described in the title and in any advertisements issued by the publisher, of short passages from published literary works in which copyright subsists and not themselves published for the use of educational institutions, does not infringe copyright in those published literary works if not more than two passages from works by the same author are published by the same publisher within five years; the source from which the passages are taken is acknowledged; and the name of the author, if given in the source, is mentioned.
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