SECTION:
(A)
REMEDIES FOR ALTERATIN OF PROGRAMING
BY CABLE SYSTEMS
In any action filed pursuant to Section 2.12 (c), the following remedies shall be
available:
(1)
(B)
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When an action is brought by a party identified as legal owner, the remedies
provided by Section 2.45 through 2.52 together with any actual damages
suffered by such party as a result of the infringement, and the remedy
provided by sub-section (b) of this Section.
In any action filed pursuant to Section 2.12 (c) the Commission may decree that, for
a period not to exceed thirty days, the cable system shall be deprived of the benefit of
compulsory license for one or more distant signals carried by such cable system.
SECTION:
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IMPORTATION OF INFRINGING COPIES
(I)
The Director General of copyright, on application by the owner of the copyright in
any work or by his duly authorized agent and on payment of the prescribed fee, may,
after making such inquiry as he deems fit, order that copies made out of Liberia of
the work which if made in Liberia would infringe copyright, shall not be imported.
(2)
Subject to any rules made under this Chapter, the Director General of Copyright or
any person authorized by him may enter any ship, dock or premises where any such
copies as are referred to in sub-section (I) may be found and may examine such
copies.
(3)
All copies to which any order made under sub-section (1) applies shall be deemed to
be goods of which the import has been prohibited or restricted under the Revenue
and Finance Law.
SECTION:
2.50
LIMITATIONS ON ACTIONS
(a)
CRIMINAL PRECEEDINGS - No criminal proceedings shall be maintained under
the provisions of this Chapter unless it is commenced within three years after the
cause of action arose.
(b)
CIVIL ACTIONS - No civil action shall be maintained under this Chapter unless it is
commenced within three years after the claim accrued.
SECTION:
2.51
RIGHT OF THE GOVERNMENT TO PROTECT
THE GENERAL PUBLIC
The provisions of this Chapter shall not affect the right of the Government of the Republic of
Liberia to permit, control or to prohibit the production, circulation, presentation,
transmission, distribution or the exhibition of any work as determined by the relevant
Government authority.
In the event a public broadcasting authority of a commercial broadcasting entity is unable to
reach a reasonable determination or rates with the producer of any material use in its
broadcast on transmission, the Government shall, through the Copyright Management Board
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