Revised Laws of Saint Lucia (2021)

55.   Research and private study

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    (1)   Subject to subsection (2) and section 57, fair dealing with a protected work for the purposes of research or private study does not infringe copyright in the work.

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    (2)   Copying by a person other than the researcher or student himself or herself is not fair dealing if—

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      (a)     in the case of a librarian, or a person acting on behalf of a librarian, he or she does anything which regulations under section 67 would not permit to be done under section 68 or 69 (articles or parts of published works: restriction on multiple copies of same material); or

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      (b)     in any other case, the person doing the copying knows or has reason to believe that it will result in copies of substantially the same material being provided to more than one person at substantially the same time and for substantially the same purpose.