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270 Prohibition on dealing with altered rights management information

412. A person infringes this section if the person—
 * (a) distributes, or imports for distribution, any rights management information that—
 * (i) relates to a protected copy; and
 * (ii) has been altered without the rights owner’s authority;
 * (b) does so without the rights owner’s authority;
 * (c) does so knowing that the rights management information has been altered without the rights owner’s authority; and
 * (d) knows or ought reasonably to know that doing so will induce, enable, facilitate or conceal a rights infringement relating to the protected copy.

Prohibition on dealing with protected copies after rights management information altered or removed

413. A person infringes this section if—
 * (a) the rights management information relating to protected copies has been removed or altered without the rights owner’s authority;
 * (b) the person—
 * (i) distributes those copies;
 * (ii) imports those copies for distribution;
 * (iii) communicates those copies to the public; or
 * (iv) makes those copies available to the public; and
 * (c) the person—
 * (i) does so without the rights owner’s authority;
 * (ii) does so knowing that the rights management information has been removed or altered without the rights owner’s authority; and