Volume 135, Number 92A
Royal Gazette
11 November 2561
Section1.This Act is called the Copyright Act (No 4), 2561 BE.
Section2.This Act shall come into force upon expiry of the period of one hundred and twenty days from the day of its publication in the Royal Gazette onwards.
Section3.(9) of paragraph 2 of the Copyright Act, 2537 BE, which has been amended by the Copyright Act (No 3), 2558 BE, shall be repealed.
Section4.The following text shall be inserted in the Copyright Act, 2537 BE as section 32/4:
“Section32/4.The conduct of any of the following acts by an authorised or recognised entity in the interest of a disabled person who is incapable of access a copyrighted work under this Act on account of vision, hearing, movement, intellectual, or learning impairment or such other impairments as designated and published in the Royal Gazette by the Minister, shall not be deemed to be infringement of copyright, if it has no objective for seeking profit and paragraph 1 of section 32 is complied with:
(1)reproduction or adaptation of a copyrighted work which has been published or communicated to the public already and has been obtained lawfully;
(2)communication to the public of a copy of a copyrighted work which has been reproduced or adapted in accordance with (1), as well as a copy of a copyrighted work which has been obtained from an entity domestically or internationally authorised or recognised.
The authorised or recognised entities, the forms of reproduction or adaptation as necessary for disabled persons, as well as the criteria and formalities for the carrying out of the reproduction or adaptation and communication to the public according to paragraph 1, shall be as designated and published in the Royal Gazette by the Minister.”
Section5.The text of section 53 of the Copyright Act, 2537 BE, which has been amended by the Copyright Act (No 2), 2558 BE, shall be repealed and replaced by the following text:
“Section53.Sections 32, 32/2, 32/3, 32/4, 33, 34, 36, 42, and section 43 shall apply mutatis mutandis to the performers’ rights.”
General Prayut Chan-o-cha
Prime Minister
