As some of you know, this year marks Malaysia’s 50th year as an nation, and in collaboration to mark this event, the government has earmarked this year as “Visit Malaysia Year”, a year dedicated to tourism all around Malaysia.
Advertisements constant remind us that this year is “Visit Malaysia Year”, but after our independence day (August 31st) marking our transition to 50 years of nationhood, I noticed that the bombardment of advertisements seem to have drastically slowed down.
Sure its gearing to the end of the year, but there are many more celebrations and opportunities to go right? Have we declared victory a bit early?
Source: The Star
So we should do it for the monetary incentives and not pride?
If you were proud to be Malaysian you wouldn’t mind the extra cost incurred in putting up flags, and decorating, and the lights and what not.
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.
