Copyright and Related Rights (Amendment) Bill 2025: Report and Final Stages
Dail Éireann — 2026-01-21
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Niamh Smyth (FF), Cavan-Monaghan

I move amendment No. 4:
In page 4, line 13, to delete “reasonable.”,” and substitute the following:
“reasonable.
(3F) Subject to subsection (3G), a party to an order under subsection (3E) or (3H) may apply to the Circuit Court to vary that order where a change in circumstances has occurred since the order was made, relevant to the particulars of that order.
(3G) An application under subsection (3F) may not be made within 12 months from the date on which the order in respect of the application was made except with the leave of the Circuit Court.
(3H) The Circuit Court, on application to it in that behalf under subsection (3F), having regard, inter alia, to the importance of the performer’s contribution to a sound recording which is the subject of the order concerned and, in particular, the change in circumstances that has occurred since the order was made relevant to the particulars of that order, may—
(a) confirm the order, or
(b) make such order varying the order as the Circuit Court determines to be just and reasonable.”,”.

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