Section 41.16 — Copyright Act: Persons with perceptual disabilities

Paragraph 41.1(1)(a) does not apply to a person with a perceptual disability, to another person acting at their request or to a non-profit organization, as defined in section 32.02, acting for their benefit, if that person or organization circumvents a technological protection measure solely for one or more of the following purposes: to make a work, a performer’s performance fixed in a sound recording or a sound recording perceptible to the person with a perceptual disability; to permit a person, or a non-profit organization referred to in subsection 32(1), to benefit from the exception set out in section 32; to permit a non-profit organization referred to in subsection 32.01(1) to benefit from the exception set out in section 32.01. Paragraphs 41.1(1)(b) and (c) do not apply to a person who offers or provides services to persons or non-profit organizations referred to in subsection (1) or who manufactures, imports or provides a technology, device or component, for the sole purpose of enabling those persons or non-profit organizations to circumvent a technological protection measure in accordance with that subsection.