LAWS OF MALAYSIA
Act 332
COPYRIGHT ACT 1987
An Act to make better provisions in the law relating to copyright and for other matters connected therewith.
BE IT ENACTED by the Duli Yang Maha Mulia Seri Paduka Baginda Yang di-Pertuan Agong with the advice and consent of the Dewan Negara and Dewan Rakyat in Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:
Part I
PRELIMINARY
Short title, application and commencement. 1. (1) This Act may be cited as the Copyright Act 1987 and shall come into force on such date as the Minister may, by notification in the Gazette, appoint and different dates may be appointed for the coming into force of different provisions of this Act.
(2) This Act shall apply throughout Malaysia.
Extent of application. 2. (1) Subject to this section, this Act shall apply in relation to works made before the commencement of this Act as it applies in relation to works made thereafter.
(2) Where only by virtue of this Act copyright subsists in a work that was made before the commencement of this Act, nothing done before the commencement of this Act shall be taken to constitute an infringement of that copyright.
(3) For the purposes of this section, a work the making of which extended over a period of time shall