Books to benefit students, photocopy man tells court
PETALING JAYA: A photocopy shop operator who got into trouble after 55 photocopies of college textbooks were found in his shop said the books were meant to benefit students.
Admitting to copyright infringement in the Sessions Court here, the man said in mitigation that there was not much profit from the sale of photocopied books.
“The books were for the benefit of students,” said 41-year-old Thin Wei Hang after pleading guilty to having the copies of textbooks at his shop in Subang Jaya at 1.12pm on Aug 4, 2003.
He was charged under Section 41(1)(d) of the Copyright Act 1987, which makes it an offence for anyone to possess any infringing copy other than for private and domestic use.
Among the titles of copies in Thin's possession were AS Level & A Level Business Studies, Biology 2 and a series of Advance Level Mathematics textbooks, the copyright of which are held by Cambridge University Press.
The court was told how an enforcement team from the state Domestic Trade and Consumer Affairs Department had found the copies in the shop after receiving a tip-off earlier.
Muhamad Aizudin Mohd Said, the prosecuting officer from the ministry, asked the court to impose a fitting sentence on the accused.
Judge Nurmala Salim fined Thin RM300 for each infringing copy.
Thin paid the RM16,500 fine.
Who knows..aahahah
another thing is....
ROTI CANAI UP BY 10 sen next month =X
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My mid terms are finally here...
starts tomorrow at 8am...for the entire week..
i'm actually harboring high hopes that I will do well...
not just well...but damn well...
guess i'll just have to see how it all goes..
good luck to y'all out there sitting for exams too! =)
the reward after this gruesome week ----> 2 weeks of hols!
take cares..
this has been Jian....out..
or just stuck between time....
I hope its the latter...
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