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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) 2.48 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: 2.49 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 47

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