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@eLaw Focus:14 July, 2003. Author: Thomas Tse. Partner, Yip, Tse & Tang
A school-cert candidate was found having duplicated the sound recording of the teaching content of a tutor. Customs officers arrested him for investigation and no charge had yet laid. Declining cost and increasing convenience of the recording media make content duplication unprecentedly common among youngsters. MP3 and MPEG are the most popular formats for digital sound recording and video.
The arrested school-cert candidate would not have been so arrested if he had not placed the duplicated contents for sale on an auction site. Duplicating copyright works such as sound recording for self-use is not an offence. Distributing it or placing it for sale is definitely liable to criminal prosecution.