SECTION 80

The following shall constitute forgery: (a) any exploitation of a literary or artistic work done in violation of this law, through performance, reproduction, transformation or distribution by any means whatsoever; (b) any reproduction, communication or supply to the public through sale, exchange, rental of a recording, a phonogram, videogram, undertaken without the authorization of the performer, phonogram or videogram producer, or the audiovisual communication firm, where such authorization is required; (c) any infringement of moral rights through violation of the right of disclosure, the right of authorship or the right to respect of a literary or artistic work; (d) any infringement of the right of authorship and the right of integrity of a performance. 81.—(1) The following shall also be considered forgery: (a) the importation, exportation, sale or putting up for sale of forged objects; (b) the importation or exportation of phonograms or videograms produced without the authorization of their performer or producer, where such authorization is required; (c) manufacturing or importing, with the intention of selling or renting or setting up equipment, material, device or instrument entirely or partially designed to fraudulently record programmes broadcast where such programmes are reserved for a specific public that receives them in return for a fee paid to their operator or his legal representatives; (d) the fraudulent neutralization of effective technical measures used by owners of copyrights or neighbouring rights to protect their works against unauthorized acts; (e) allowing the irregular reproduction or performance in one’s establishment of works protected by this law; (f) failure to pay or unjustified late payment of a fee as provided for by this law; (g) carrying out the following acts, knowingly or, for civil sanctions, having good reason to believe that this act will lead to, enable, facilitate or conceal infringement of a right provided for in this law: — unauthorized removal or alteration of any electronic information relating to the copyright regime; — the distribution, importation for distribution, unauthorized communication of originals or copies of works, performances, videograms, phonograms, programmes, while knowing that the electronic information relating to the copyright regime has been removed or altered without authorization. YH Collection of Laws for Electronic Access CAMEROON CM001EN Copyright, Law, 19/12/2000, No. 2000/011 page 23/25 (2) “Information on copyright regime” shall mean information that helps to identify the work, performance, videogram, phonogram or programme, or information on the conditions of use of such productions and any number or code representing such information where one of these elements of information is attached to a copy of a production or is linked to the communication of a production to the public. 82.—(1) The offences referred to in Sections 80 and 81 [shall] be punishable by imprisonment of from 5 (five) to 10 (ten) years or a fine of from 500,000 to 10,000,000 CFA francs or both such imprisonment and fine. (2) The penalties provided for in this section shall be doubled where the offender is a partner of the owner of the infringed right.