Copyright Act 2013 (Cook Islands)

The Act defines copyright as a property right that exists in original works and confers exclusive rights on the owner of the copyright in the works. Despite the foregoing, copyright exists in an original literary, dramatic or musical work only if the work is recorded and no copyright exists in official texts of a legislative, administrative or legal nature or in any translation of those texts. Copyright exists by the sole fact of its creation and irrespective of the mode or form of expression or its content, quality or purpose. 

The Act provides the rules on, and defines the rights of owners of copyright, exceptions to copyright infringement, moral rights in works, and the rights of performers, producers of sound recordings and broadcasters. It provides for the procedure for the enforcement of civil remedies and criminal offenses such as infringement.