Parliament of Malaysia

“ Any person who causes a literary or musical work to be performed in public shall be guilty of an offence under this subsection unless he is able to prove that he had acted in good faith and had no reasonable grounds for supposing that copyright would or might thereby be infringed. ”

“ An assignment, licence or testamentary disposition may be effectively granted or made in respect of a future work, or an existing work in which copyright does not yet subsist, and the future copyright in any such work shall be transferable by operation of law as movable property. ”

“ If any books, documents or papers which are in evidence or are liable to inspection in civil or criminal proceedings whatsoever contain any entry in which any informer is named or described or which might lead to his discovery, the court shall cause all such passages to be concealed from view or to be obliterated so far only as may be necessary to protect the informer from discovery. ”

“ Where it appears to an Assistant Controller or a police officer not below the rank of Inspector that it is not practical to remove from where they are found, any thing or document seized by him in the exercise of his powers under this Act, by reason of their nature, size or amount, he may by any means seal such things or documents in the premises or container in which they are found and it shall be an offence for any person without lawful authority to break, tamper with or damage such seal or remove such things or documents or to attempt to do so. ”

“ Where a person is authorized, whether by virtue of an assignment, a licence or otherwise, to publish, reproduce, perform in public, broadcast or communicate by cable a work, that person may make modifications to the work if it would be reasonable to expect that the authorized publication, reproduction, public performance, broadcast or communication by cable, as the case may be, could not take place without the modifications ”

“ Subject to this Act, infringements of copyright shall be actionable at the suit of the owner of the copyright and in any action for such an infringement, all such relief by way of damages, injunction, accounts or otherwise, shall be available to the plaintiff as are available in any corresponding proceedings in respect of infringement of other proprietary rights. ”

“ Where an offence under this section is committed by a body corporate or by a person who is a partner in a firm, every director, secretary or manager of the body corporate or, as the case may be, every other partner in the firm shall be deemed to be guilty of the offence unless he proves that the offence was committed without his consent or connivance and that he exercised all due diligence to prevent the commission of the offence. ”

“ For the purposes of this section, a licensing body shall be deemed to have refused to grant a general licence to a person if the licensing body has failed, within a reasonable time from the date when that person had made a written request to the licensing body for such a licence, to grant a licence or to state in writing the terms and conditions on which it is prepared to grant the licence. ”

“ Any person asserting that he is the owner of any article, book, document, copy or contrivance seized under this Act and that the same are not liable to forfeiture may personally or by his agent authorized in writing by him give written notice to an Assistant Controller of his claim. ”

“ While an order made by the High Court by way of determination of a dispute referred to it pursuant to subsection (1) remains in force, either party to the dispute may refer the matter back to the High Court for further consideration, but, except with the special leave of the Court—
Regulations and extension of application of Act. 59. ”

“ Entry by warrant or otherwise. 45. Effecting entry, removal and detention. 46. List of things seized. 47. Sealing of things. 48. Obstruction to search. 49. Warrant admissible notwithstanding, etc. 50. Powers of investigation. 51. Admissibility of statement. 52. Disclosure of information. 53. Conduct of prosecution in court. 54. Forfeiture of articles. 55. Proportional examination of articles seized to be accpeted. 56. Protection of informers from discovery. 57. Protection of Assistant Controllers and police officers.
Part VIII
MISCELLANEOUS
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“ License to produce and publish translation. 32. Appeal from decision of the Tribunal. 33. Tribunal may request for information. 34. No action to lie against Tribunal. 35. Regulations relating to Tribunal.
Part VI
REMEDIES FOR INFRINGEMENTS AND OFFENCES
36. Infringements. 37. Action by owner of copyright and relief. 38. Proceedings in case of copyright subject to exclusive license. 39. Restriction on importation of infringing copies. 40. Back-up copy of computer program. 41. Offences. 42. Affidavit admissible in evidence. 43. Penalty.
Part VII
ENFORCEMENT
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