Denmark has implemented the Temporary acts of reproduction (Art. 5.1 InfoSoc) exception in § 11a of the Copyright Act. The national exception closely resembles the EU exception.

Implementation summary:

This exception allows for the making of temporary copies, which are transient or incidental and which are an integral and essential part of a technical process for the sole purpose of enabling a transmission of a work in a network between third parties by an intermediary, or a lawful use of a work, and which have no independent economic significance.

Implementation details:

Beneficiaries:

• intermediaries (transmission between third parties in a network)
• any user (lawful use)

Purposes:

• transmission in a network between third parties
• other lawful use

Usage:

• temporary acts of reproduction

Subject Matter:

• works
• performances
• phonograms
• film fixations
• broadcasts
• photographic pictures
• press publications

Compensation:

• no compensation required

Attribution:

• no attribution required

Other Conditions:

• temporary acts of reproduction must be transient or incidental
• temporary acts of reproduction must constitute an integral and essential part of a technical process
• temporary acts of reproduction must have no independent economic significance

Introduced/last updated: 17 December 2002

Remarks: § 11a of the Copyright Act applies also to performances (§ 65(6) of the CA); sound recordings (§ 66(2) of the CA); film fixations (§ 67(2) of the CA), broadcasts (§ 69(3) of the CA), photographic pictures (§70 (3) of the CA) and press publications (§ 69a(5) of the CA - added with the ammendment of 3 June 2021).