| (1) |
Any person who at a time when copyright subsists in a work, without the authority of the owner of the copyright— |
| (a) |
makes for sale or hire; |
| (b) |
sells or lets for hire or by way of trade offers or exposes for sale or hire; |
| (c) |
by way of trade exhibits in public; |
| (d) |
imports into the Republic otherwise than for his private or domestic use; |
| (e) |
distributes for purposes of trade; or |
| (f) |
distributes for any other purposes to such an extent that the owner of the copyright is prejudicially affected, |
articles which he knows to be infringing copies of the work, shall be guilty of an offence.
| (2) |
Any person who at a time when copyright subsists in a work makes or has in his possession a plate knowing that it is to be used for making infringing copies of the work, shall be guilty of an offence. |
| (3) |
Any person who causes a literary or musical work to be performed in public knowing that copyright subsists in the work and that performance constitutes an infringement of the copyright, shall be guilty of an offence. |
| (4) |
Any person who causes a broadcast to be rebroadcast or transmitted in a diffusion service knowing that copyright subsists in the broadcast and that such rebroadcast or transmission constitutes an infringement of the copyright, shall be guilty of an offence. |
| (5) |
Any person who causes programme-carrying signals to be distributed by a distributor for whom they were not intended knowing that copyright subsists in the signals and that such distribution constitutes an infringement of the copyright, shall be guilty of an offence. |
| (6) |
A person convicted of an offence under this section shall be liable— |
| (a) |
in the case of a first conviction, to a fine not exceeding five thousand rand or to imprisonment for a period not exceeding three years or to both such fine and such imprisonment, for each article to which the offence relates; |
| (b) |
in any other case, to a fine not exceeding ten thousand rand or to imprisonment for a period not exceeding five years or to both such fine and such imprisonment, for each article to which the offence relates. |
(7) [Section 27(7) deleted by section 24(b) of Act No. 125 of 1992]
(8) [Section 27(8) deleted by section 24(b) of Act No. 125 of 1992]
Postal Services Act, 1998
