Copyright Ordinance, 1962 — section 56

56. When copyright infringed..—Copyright in a work shall be deemed to be infringed

(a)when any person, without the consent of the owner of the copyright or without a licence granted by such owner or the Registrar under this Ordinance or in contravention of the conditions of a licence so granted or of any condition imposed by a competent authority under this Ordinance,

(i)does anything, the exclusive right to do which is by this Ordinance conferred upon the owner of the copyright; or

(ii)permits for profit any place to be used for the performance of the work in public where such performance constitutes an infringement of the copyright in the work unless he was not aware, and had no reasonable ground for suspecting, that such performance would be an infringement of copyright; or

(b)when any person

(i)makes for sale or hire, or sells or lets for hire, or by way of trade displays or offers for sale or hire, or

(ii)distributes either for the purpose of trade to such an extent as to affect prejudicially the owner of the copyright, or

(iii)by way of trade exhibits in public, or

(iv)imports into Pakistan, any infringing copies of the work. Explanation.__ For the purposes of this section, the reproduction of a literary, dramatic, musical or artistic work in the form of a cinematographic work shall be deemed to be an “infringing copy”.