f) Any person who, with fraudulent intent, removes or alters any notice of copyright and other areas pertaining to intellectual property rights appearing on a copy of a work or on a product in which under this Act shall be guilty of an offence and liable to a fine of not more than United States Two Thousand Dollars (US$2,000.00) or twice the value of the defendant‟s profits attributable to the infringement, whichever is greater. g) Any person who, with fraudulent intent, places on any article a notice of copyright or words or areas relating to intellectual property rights of the same purport that such person knows to be false, or who, with fraudulent intent, publicly distributes or imports for public distribution any article bearing such notice or words that such person knows to be false, shall be guilty of an offence and liable to a fine of not more than United States Two Thousand Dollars (US$2,000.00) or twice the value of the defendant‟s profits attributable to the infringement, whichever is greater. h) No criminal proceedings shall commence under the provisions of this section if a period of three years has elapsed following the action. i) “Commercial scale” as referred to in subsection (a), includes the reproduction or distribution, including by electronic means, during the period of a year, of at least 10 copies of a work in which copyright subsists under this Act, with a view to direct or indirect economic or commercial benefit. SCHEDULE ONE COMPULSORY LICENCE FOR TRANSLATION AND REPRODUCTION OF CERTAIN WORKS a) Interpretation In this Schedule: “qualified person” means a citizen of Liberia or an individual domiciled in Liberia; or a body corporate incorporated under any written law in Liberia; “research” shall not include industrial research, or research carried out by bodies corporate (not being bodies corporate owned or controlled by the Government), companies, associations or bodies of persons carrying on any business; “purposes of teaching, research or scholarship” include: (a) purposes of instruction activity at all levels in educational institutions; and (b) purposes of all types of organized educational activity. b) License to produce and publish translations: i. Any qualified person may apply to the Intellectual Property Office for a license to produce and publish a translation of a literary or dramatic work which has been published in printed or analogous forms of reproduction for the purposes of teaching, scholarship or research. 97