Collection of Laws for Electronic Access
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CAMEROON
Part VI
Infringement, Penalties and Procedures
80. The following shall constitute forgery:
(a) any exploitation of a literary or artistic work done in violation of this law, through
performance, reproduction, transformation or distribution by any means whatsoever;
(b) any reproduction, communication or supply to the public through sale, exchange,
rental of a recording, a phonogram, videogram, undertaken without the authorization of the
performer, phonogram or videogram producer, or the audiovisual communication firm, where
such authorization is required;
(c) any infringement of moral rights through violation of the right of disclosure, the
right of authorship or the right to respect of a literary or artistic work;
(d) any infringement of the right of authorship and the right of integrity of a
performance.
81.—(1) The following shall also be considered forgery:
(a) the importation, exportation, sale or putting up for sale of forged objects;
(b) the importation or exportation of phonograms or videograms produced without the
authorization of their performer or producer, where such authorization is required;
(c) manufacturing or importing, with the intention of selling or renting or setting up
equipment, material, device or instrument entirely or partially designed to fraudulently record
programmes broadcast where such programmes are reserved for a specific public that receives
them in return for a fee paid to their operator or his legal representatives;
(d) the fraudulent neutralization of effective technical measures used by owners of
copyrights or neighbouring rights to protect their works against unauthorized acts;
(e) allowing the irregular reproduction or performance in one’s establishment of works
protected by this law;
(f) failure to pay or unjustified late payment of a fee as provided for by this law;
(g) carrying out the following acts, knowingly or, for civil sanctions, having good
reason to believe that this act will lead to, enable, facilitate or conceal infringement of a right
provided for in this law:
— unauthorized removal or alteration of any electronic information relating to the
copyright regime;
— the distribution, importation for distribution, unauthorized communication of
originals or copies of works, performances, videograms, phonograms, programmes, while
knowing that the electronic information relating to the copyright regime has been removed or
altered without authorization.
CM001EN
Copyright, Law, 19/12/2000, No. 2000/011
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