private financial gains, or intentionally violates any of the author's rights even without meaning to,
directly or indirectly realizing financial gains.
4 Intentionally violates the economic right of a work in the Sultanate of Oman by its publication
abroad, or offering it for further distribution, or export.
5 Commits any of the prohibited actions prescribed in paragraphs (1, 2, 3) of Article (40) of this
Law with the purpose of realizing commercial profits or private financial gain, unless the perpetrator
was a non-profit public library, a document keeping agency, educational or scientific or cultural
institution, or a non-commercial governmental broadcasting corporation.
6 Knowingly traffics in counterfeit labels affixed or designed to be affixed to: a sound
recording, a copy of a computer program, documentation or packaging for a computer program, or an
audio-visual work.
7 -
Knowingly traffics in counterfeit documentation or packaging for a computer program.
8 -
Intentionally importing or exporting goods infringing the provisions of this law.
9 Manufacturing, assembling, modifying, importing, exporting, selling, leasing, or otherwise
distributing a tangible or intangible system or device, knowing or having reason to know that the
device or system is primarily used in decoding an encrypted program-carrying satellite signal without
the written authorization of the lawful distributor of such signal.
10 - Intentionally receives or further distributes an encrypted program-carrying satellite signal if
he knowing or having reasons to know that it has been decoded without the written authorization of
the lawful distributor of such signal.
In all cases, the punishment, both in its minimum and/or maximum limits, shall be doubled for
repeating the offense, together with closure of the commercial establishment where the offense was
committed, or banning of the activity, subject to the Court considerations.
In deciding the punishment, the Court must observe that the punishment should be severe enough to
deter further offenses matching with the policy aiming at eliminating the infringer's economic gains.
Article (53):
Upon proofing the violation or intentionally committing the prohibited act, the court shall have the
authority to order the forfeiture of any assets traceable to the infringing activity and shall, except in
exceptional circumstances, order the forfeiture and destruction of all the pirated goods, and the
materials and tools used in the infringing activity and destroy them at the expense of the convicted
defendant, or to dispose of them outside the commercial channels should the destruction causes harms
to the public health or the environment.
Article (54):
Without prejudice to any more severe sanction provided under any other law:
a)
Any person shall be punished by imprisonment from a minimum of seven days up to
a maximum of one month as well as monetary fines from a minimum of One Hundred
Rials up to a maximum of One Thousand Rials, or by either one, if that person, any of
the rivals, violates an order issued by the court pursuant to articles (45, 46) of this
law.
b)
Any person shall be punished by monetary fines from a minimum of One Hundred
Rials up to a maximum of One Thousand Rials, if that person, be any of the rivals,