Section 203
Section 203
(1)
This section applies where copies of a copyright work are issued to the public, by or with the licence of the copyright owner, in an electronic form which is copy-protected.
(2)
The following acts are unlawful and, in the application of any provision of this
Order relating to civil or criminal remedies, shall be treated as infringements of the rights protected by this Order –
(a)
the manufacture or importation for sale or rental of any device or means specifically designed or adapted to circumvent any device or means intended to prevent or restrict reproduction of a work, sound recording or broadcast, or to impair the quality of any copy thereof;
(b)
the manufacture or importation for sale or rental of any device or means that is susceptible to enable or assist the reception of an encrypted program broadcast or otherwise communicated to the public, including by satellite, by any person not entitled to receive that program;
(c)
the removal or alteration of any electronic rights management information without authority;
(d)
the distribution, importation for distribution, broadcasting, communication or making available to the public, without authority, or a work, performance, sound recording or broadcast, by any person knowing or having reason
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to believe that electronic rights management information has been removed or altered without authority.
(3)
In the application of any provision of this Order relating to civil or criminal remedies, any illicit device and means mentioned in subsection (2) and any copy from which rights management information has been removed or in which such information has been altered, shall be treated as an infringing copy, and any illicit act mentioned in subsection (2)
shall be treated as an infringement of copyright to which the provisions of this Order relating to civil and criminal remedies are applicable.
(4)
Sections 106, 107 and 108 apply to proceedings under this section as to proceedings under Part I.
(5)
Section 212 applies, with the necessary modifications, to the disposal of anything delivered up or seized under subsection (3).
(6)
In this section, “rights management information” means any information which identifies the author, work, producer of a sound recording, broadcaster, performer, performance, or any owner of any right under this Order, any information about the terms and conditions of use of a work or performance, and any number or code that represents such information, when any of those items of information is attached to a copy of a work or a fixed performance, or appears in connection with the broadcasting, communication to the public or making available to the public of that work or fixed performance.
Penalty for breach of section 203(2).