Volume 132, Issue 6A
Royal Gazette
5 February 2558
Copyright
Act (No. 2),
2558 BE
Bhumibol Adulyadej R
Given on the 31st day of January 2558 BE
Being the 70th year of the present reign
Phra Bat Somdet Phra Paramin Maha Bhumibol Adulyadej has issued with his pleasure a great royal command that it be proclaimed as follows:
Whereas it is appropriate to amend the law on copyright;
Therefore, he grants with his gracious pleasure, by and with the advice and consent of the National Assembly, the enactment of the following Act:
Section1.This Act is called the "Copyright Act (No. 2), 2558 BE".
Section2.This Act shall come into force upon elapse of the period of one hundred and eighty days reckoned from the date of its publication in the Government Gazette onwards.
Section3.The [following] definitions of the terms "rights management information", "technological protection measure", and "circumvention of a technological protection measure" shall be inserted between the definitions of the terms "publish" and "competent official" in section 4 of the Copyright Act, 2537 BE:
- "'rights management information' means the information which indicates an author, work of authorship, performer, performance, copyright owner, or terms and conditions of use of a copyrighted work, as well as the numbers or codes representing the described information; provided that such information is attached to or appears in connection with the copyrighted work or a recording of the performance;
- 'technological protection measure'[1] means a technology which is designed for preventing the reproduction of or controlling an access to a copyrighted work or performance recording and is efficiently applied to such copyrighted work or performance recording;
- ↑ Literally, "technological measure".
