Intellectual Property Courts Established
So it seems like the Intellectual Property Courts I last discussed two months back are already established, and taking cases.
At the first sitting of the IP Court, an unemployed man was issued with an arrest warrant for not being present in a case in which he was in possession of 246 pirated songs in 24 cassettes.
Rosdi Mamat, 42, from Pasir Puteh in Kelantan did not show up when his name was called up at 3pm.
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Rosdi is accused of committing the offence at an unnumbered stall at a night market in Jalan Kuching at 9.30pm on Nov 6, 2003.
If convicted, he can be fined up to RM20,000 or jailed five years, or both, under the Copyrights Act 1987.
In the same court, four other copyright cases were also heard.
How did they even find this person? Is this a case of remixing various tapes to create a playlist? If so is this illegal in Malaysia? If this was simply the case, then this could set the precedent making remixes is bad.
If only I could find more detail, any help guys? Time to look at the Malaysia Copyright Act of 1987, again…
You can misinterpret the first pagagraph of the article, to read that the main job of the IP courts is the appeasement of foreign countries.
Malaysia hopes to be removed from the international watch list for intellectual property offences with the setting up Intellectual Property (IP) Courts.
