THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 30TH OCTOBER, 1986. 1005
24. No owner of a lithographic or photographic negative or similar work need Registration of deposit or register it unless he desires to maintain his copyright therein. Non-com-lithographs and pliance with the terms of registration prescribed by this Act, in the case of such litho- graphic or photographic negative or similar work, shall be deemed a céding to to the public of the copyright thereof.
3 25. The forms of registration required by this Act shall be prescribed by the Board of Trade.
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26. Any person who infringes copyright or any of the rights given by this Act in Penalties.
any work-
By printing; or by modelling, drawing, painting, engraving, photographing, or otherwise copying from a model; or by casting, engraving, photo- graphing, or repeating; or by multiplying copies of it in any size in whole or in part by any means whatsoever;
Or by publishing or importing, or by selling, or exposing publicly or for sale, or letting for hire any copy thereof, or any colourable imitation thereof, or copy with alterations or additions thereto not authorized by the origi- nal copyright owner, knowing that the said copy or colourable imitation. is imported or made without the consent of the owner; Or by wilfully importing into the United Kingdom or any other British possession copyright books reproduced in any British possession under arrangement with the copyright owner without the said owner's sanction in writing, after due notice of the existence of the copyright therein has been given to Her Majesty's Customs under "The Customs Consolidation Act, 1876," or in any other way prescribed by the authority of Parliament. Or by translating, dramatizing, or abridging it;
Or by making extracts therefrom in such a manner as to inflict loss on the
owner of the copyright;
Or by reducing the score, or by arranging or adapting the air or melody of any dramatic piece for other purposes than that to which it was first applied by the author;
Or by delivering or publicly performing it (except in the case of songs); Or by causing any of these acts to be done, may be restrained by injunction or other- wise as the Court may think fit, and shall forfeit to the owner of the copyright all plates, whether of steel, copper, zinc, stereotype, or electrotype, or of other material, all illustrations, whether on wood, or steel, or copper, or stone, or zine, or of any other kind, and all casts therefrom, of fac-similes thereof, and all materials specially belonging to the said copyright work, and all copies of works or parts of works in his possession or control, and also be liable for such damages, not less than 50%., as the Court may award.
27. Any person who infringes copyright in any work by selling it, or exposing it Penalties for selling publicly or for sale, or letting it for hire or in the case of a song reserved by notice by copies, &c. publicly performing it, shall be restrained by injunction or otherwise as the Court my think fit, and shall also forfeit all copies in his possession or control to the owner of the copyright, and shall be liable for such damages as the Court may award; but no cópy- right owner shall have the right to sue for any penalty for public performance of any song first published after the commencement of this Act, unless he shall print, or cause to be printed, upon the title-page of every published copy thereof a notice that the right of public performance is reserved.
representing any
28. Any person fraudulently representing any work of fine art to be wholly or in Fraudulently part the work of a person who is not its author, inventor, designer, or maker, in any porting any way by which such representation can be conveyed, or knowingly selling, publishing, or exhibiting such a work, may be restrained by injunction or otherwise, as the Courts may think fit, and shall upon conviction forfeit to the person aggrieved such a sum. not exceeding 107., as the Court may award, and all fraudulent copies of the said work in his possession or control.
unlawful copies.
29. If any person elsewhere than at his own house, shop, or place of business shall Penalties for hawk, carry about, offer, or keep for sale or hire any unlawful copy, repetition, or imita- hiking, &c., tion of any work, wherein there is copyright under this Act, every such unlawful copy, repetition, or imitation may be seized without warrant by the owner of the copyright, or by any peace officer or other person authorized by him in writing, and forthwith taken before any person having jurisdiction under the Summary Jurisdiction Act, and upon proof that such copy, repetition, or imitation was unlawfully made, it shall be forfeited and delivered up to the owner of the copyright as his property.