Copyright.
CHAPTER 39.
COPYRIGHT.
To modify and to add to the provisions of the Copyright Act, 1911, in its application to the Colony of Hong Kong.
[30th August, 1918.]
[CAP. 39
Originally Fraser
11 of 1918.
11 of 1918.
22 of 1950.
1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Copyright Ordinance.
Short title.
1 & 2 Geo. 5,
2. For the purpose of the application of section 14 of the Copyright Act, 1911, to the importation into this Colony of works made out of the Colony-
Modifications.
c. 46. s. 14.
(a) the Director of Commerce and Industry shall perform the duties and may exercise the powers thereby imposed on or given to the Commissioners of Customs and Excise of the United Kingdom;
(b) regulations made by the Director of Commerce and Industry under that section shall require the approval of the Governor in Council;
(c) regulations made under that section may provide that notices given to the Commissioners of Customs and Excise of the United Kingdom, if communicated by them to the Director of Commerce and Industry, shall be deemed to have been given by the owner of the copyright to the Director of Commerce and Industry;
(d) that section shall have effect as if it formed part of the Importation and Exportation Ordinance.
(Cap. 50.)
3. (1) Any person who knowingly-
Penalties for dealing with copies, etc.
(a) makes for sale or hire any infringing copy of a work in which copyright subsists; or
(b) sells or lets for hire, or by way of trade exposes or offers for sale or hire, any infringing copy of any such work; or
(c) distributes infringing copies of any such work either for the purposes of trade or to such an extent as to affect prejudicially the owner of a copyright; or
(d) by way of trade exhibits in public any infringing copy of any such work; or
1 & 2 Geo. 5, c. 46, s. 11.
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