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[Pt. VI, S. 41]
40
Act 332
Offences. 41. (1) Any person who during the subsistence of copyright in a work—
| (a) | makes for sale or hire any infringing copy; | |
| (b) | sells, lets for hire or by way of trade, exposes or offers for sale or hire any infringing copy; | |
| (c) | distributes infringing copies; | |
| (d) | possesses, otherwise than for his private and domestic use, any infringing copy; | |
| (e) | by way of trade, exhibits in public any infringing copy; | |
| (f) | imports into Malaysia, otherwise than for his private and domestic use any copy which if it were made in Malaysia would be an infringing copy; or | |
| (g) | makes or has in his possession any contrivance used or intended to be sued for the purposes of making infringing copies, |
shall, 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, be guilty of an offence and shall on conviction be liable—
| (i) | in the case of an offence under paragraphs (a) to (f), to a fine not exceeding ten thousand ringgit for each infringing copy, or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding five years or to both and for any subsequent offence, to a fine not exceeding twenty thousand ringgit for each infringing copy or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding ten years or to both; and | |
| (ii) | in the case of an offence under paragraph (g), to a fine not exceeding twenty thousand ringgit for each contrivance in respect of which the offence was committed or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding ten years or to both and for any subsequent offence to a fine not |
