A person who, without permission of the lawful owner or copyright holder, and for purposes of commercial advantage or private financial gain:
Penal Code
2015 English source edition · Current applicability not established.
English-language 2015 Ministry of Justice edition. Refworld catalogues this English expression as an unofficial translation; Eri Atlas has not independently verified the translation.
Article 361
Infringement of Copyright · Preserved transcription; page attribution imported from the source collection. Verify against the original.
counterfeits, reproduces, copies or imitates, in whole or in part, by sound, print, electronically, photographically or any other copying method, a literary, musical or photographic composition, or any other intellectual work protected by an owner’s, author’s or performer’s copyright; or
sells, offers for sale, imports or exports, distributes or places on the market infringements of such works,
is guilty of infringement of copyright, a Class 9 serious offence, punishable with a definite term of imprisonment of not less than 1 year and not more than 3 years.
Infringement of literary or artistic copyright under sub-Article (1) may only be prosecuted upon the preferring of charges by the victim.