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How can copyrights be inforced?

 A copyright owner can approach a person breaking the copyright laws and stop them in their tracks. It is best to seek legal advice. Where legal enforcement is required it is generally done in the court system.

 Injunctions  The owner of the copyright in a work or any other may obtain an injunction to stop people from breaking the laws of copyright occurring or continuing.

 Account of Profits  In some cases, if the accused has made money from someone else’s material, the court may order payment to the owner of copyright of the profit made by the person who broke the rules. This can sometimes be the only way to settle the matter.

 Conversion damages  When the copyright laws were broken deliberately, the Copyright Act also provides for the owner of the copyright in a work or any other to be in the same position as if he or she owned the copies of the material that has been copied. In court, there is a provision for a copyright owner to have any copies of the material in the hands of the person who has committed the act of copyright. (Including any device used in making the copies) delivered to him or her.

 Customs  A notice in writing may be given to the Chief Executive Officer of Customs objecting to the importation or exportation of copies of copyright materials suspected to be copies of an orginal peice.

//injunction: Law//. a judicial process or order requiring the person or persons to whom it is directed to do a particular act or to refrain from doing a particular act. //provision//: a clause in a legal instrument, a law, etc., providing for a particular matter; stipulation; proviso. []
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