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| ARTICLE 12: | Obligations concerning Rights Management Information |
(1) Contracting Parties shall provide adequate and effective
legal remedies against any person knowingly performing any of the following
acts knowing, or with respect to civil remedies having reasonable grounds
to know, that it will induce, enable, facilitate or conceal an infringement
of any right covered by this Treaty or the Berne Convention:
(ii) to distribute, import for distribution, broadcast or communicate to the public, without authority, works or copies of works knowing that electronic rights management information has been removed or altered without authority.
(2) As used in this Article, “rights management information”
means information which identifies the work, the author of the work, the owner
of any right in the work, or information about the terms and conditions of
use of the work, and any numbers or codes that represent such information,
when any of these items of information is attached to a copy of a work or
appears in connection with the communication of a work to the public.