Copyright Law Implementing Regulations

Procedures and Rules of the Violation Review Committee The committee shall exercise its jurisdiction in reviewing all violations of the provisions of the Law and these Regulations and shall determine the punishments according to what is stipulated in Article (22) of the Law in proportion to the gravity of infringement and the number of violations recorded with the committee against the violating party, and compensate owners of copyrights for the damage incurred by them, subject to the following: (1) The chairman of the committee shall supervise its technical and administrative work, and shall determine the dates of sessions to review the cases brought before the committee in coordination with the members. (2) The committee may convene its meetings if attended by not less than two thirds of the members, provided that the legal and Shari’ah counselors are present. (3) The committee, as necessary, may seek the assistance of experts to obtain their opinions on some of the violations brought before it. (4) The committee may summon any party to the violation to hear his statements, the inspector who detected the violation, the information analyst, or the investigator or any other person whose statements the committee deems necessary to hear. (5) The Committee may return the violation papers to the investigation authority in order to request additional information, or to complete whatever it deems necessary regarding the investigations. (6) Decisions of the committee shall be issued by majority vote and shall be referred by the chairman of the committee to the Board of Directors, and said decisions shall not be effective unless approved by the Board of Directors. (7) If the committee finds the violation committed grave and punishable with imprisonment or a fine exceeding one hundred thousand riyals, or closing the store permanently and canceling the license, the matter shall be referred to the Board of Directors for its approval to forward this violation to the Public Prosecution to refer it to the Competent Court for review, and to determine the appropriate punishment against the infringer. (8) The committee shall inform The Competent Department of the approved decisions in order to notify the relevant department to carry out the prescribed punishments.