Section 184
Section 184
(1)
A performer’s rights are infringed by a person who, without his consent –
(a)
imports otherwise than for his private and domestic use; or
(b)
in the course of a business, possesses, sells, lets for hire, offers or exposes for sale or hire, or distributes, a recording of a qualifying performance which is, and which that person knew or had reason to believe was, an illicit recording.
Incorporating amendments until S 92/2013
(Clean copy) NORHASNANI /fiqah/Muslim as of 16th July 2020
133
BLUV as at 24th December 2013
(2)
Where in an action for infringement of a performer’s rights brought under this section a defendant shows that the illicit recording was innocently acquired by him or a predecessor in title of his, the only remedy available against him in respect of the infringement is damages not exceeding a reasonable payment in respect of the act complained of.
(3)
In subsection (2), “innocently acquired” means that the person acquiring the recording did not know and had no reason to believe that it was an illicit recording.
Rights of person having recording rights
Infringement of performer’s rights by rental.