Section 15

manufacturing a streaming technology for sale or hire;

importing a streaming technology;

selling or letting for hire, offering, exposing or advertising for sale or hire, possessing or distributing a streaming technology in the course of a business;

distributing a streaming technology for purposes other than in the course of a business to such an extent as to affect prejudicially the owner of the copyright; or

offering to the public or providing any service of streaming technology.

Any person who contravenes subsection (1) shall be guilty of an offence and shall, on conviction, be liable to a fine of not less than ten thousand ringgit and not more than two hundred thousand ringgit or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding twenty years or to both.

Where an offence under this section is committed by a body corporate or by a person who is a partner in a firm, every director, chief executive officer, chief operating officer, secretary, manager or other similar officer of

Copyright (Amendment)

15

the body corporate or every other partner in the firm or was purporting to act in any such capacity or was in any manner or to any extent responsible for the management of the affairs of the body corporate or firm or was assisting in such management, as the case may be, shall be deemed to be guilty of the offence and may be charged severally or jointly in the same proceedings with the body corporate or firm unless he proves that the offence was committed without his consent or connivance and that he exercised all due diligence to prevent the commission of the offence.

For the purpose of this section, “streaming technology”

includes computer program, device or component which is used in part or in whole that results in an infringement of the copyright in a work.”.

Amendment of section 48