Senate debates

Thursday, 30 November 2006

Copyright Amendment Bill 2006

In Committee

8:53 pm

Photo of Kate LundyKate Lundy (ACT, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Minister for Sport and Recreation) Share this | Hansard source

Thank you. One more scenario is the process of breaching copyright. If someone did breach copyright, and they copied and then sold a CD, so a commercial activity was involved, how many offences would that constitute? With each offence, would that compound the strict liability penalty involved or would that constitute one offence and therefore attract the $6,600 fine as opposed to a $60,000 fine? Can you explain how those strict liability penalty infringements would apply in a scenario where one CD was sold that someone had ripped and breached copyright?

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