Copyright. [Ch. 31. No. 16.

 

PART ITI.
OFFENCES AND REMEDIES.

8. (1) No person shall—

(a) fraudulently sign or otherwise affix, or fraudu-
lently cause to be signed or otherwise affixed, to or
upon any painting, drawing, or photograph, or the
negative of a photograph, any name, initials, or
monogram ;

(6) fraudulently sell, publish, exhibit, or dispose of,
or offer for sale, exhibition, or distribution, any
painting, drawing, or photograph, or negative of a
photograph, having thereon the name, initials, or
monogram of a person who did not execute or make
such work;

(c) fraudulently utter, dispose of, or put off, or cause
to be uttered or disposed of, any copy or colourable
imitation of any painting, drawing, or photograph, or
negative of a photograph, whether there shall be
subsisting copyright therein or not, as having been
made or executed by the author or maker of the original
work from which such copy or imitation shall have been
taken.

(2) Where the author or maker of any painting,
drawing, or photograph, or negative of a photograph,
made cither before or after the commencement of this
Ordinance, shall have sold or otherwise parted with the
possession of such work, if any alteration be afterwards
made therein by any other person, by addition or otherwise,
no person shall be at liberty, during the life of the author
or maker of such work, without his consent, to make, or
knowingly to sell or publish, or offer for sale, such work
or any copies of such work so altered as aforesaid, or of any
part thereof, as or for the unaltered work of such author
or maker.

(3) Every offender under this section shall upon
conviction forfeit to the person aggrieved a sum not ex-
ceeding forty-eight dollars, or not exceeding double the
full price, if any, at which all such copies, engravings,
imitations, or altered works shall have been sold or offered
for sale, and all such copies, engravings, imitations, or

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Penalties on
fraudulent
productions
and sales.