### Copyright Ordinance 《版權條例》

270. Compensation payable to importer, etc.
(1) Where an article is seized or detained pursuant to a detention order and the article is released pursuant to section 265(6), the importer, the consignee or the owner of the article may, within 6 months after the date on which the order is made, apply to the Court of First Instance for compensation for any loss or damage suffered by him by reason of the seizure or detention.
(2) Where—
(a) an article is seized or detained pursuant to a detention order;
(b) an action for infringement is brought under this Part in respect of the article within the period referred to in section 265(6), as may be extended under section 265(7); and
(c) the action is discontinued, the claim of infringement is withdrawn or the court in the infringement proceedings determines that the infringement is not proved,
the importer, the consignee or the owner of the article may, within 6 months after the date on which the action is discontinued, the claim is withdrawn or the court renders its determination, as the case may be, apply to the Court of First Instance for compensation for any loss or damage suffered by him by reason of the seizure or detention.
(3) On an application under subsection (1) or (2), the Court of First Instance may make such order for compensation as it deems fit.
(Amended 25 of 1998 s. 2)

271. Rules
The power to make rules of court under section 54 of the High Court Ordinance (Cap. 4) includes power to make rules of court regulating and prescribing the procedure and the practice to be followed in the Court of First Instance under this Division, and any matter incidental to or relating to that procedure or practice, including rules prescribing any matter or thing that under this Division is to be or may be prescribed by rules of court.
(Amended 25 of 1998 s. 2)

272. Protection of Commissioner and authorized officers
(1) The Commissioner and authorized officers are not liable for any loss or damage suffered by any person as a result of any action taken or omitted to be taken in good faith in connection with the carrying out of a detention order.
(2) The protection conferred by subsection (1) on the Commissioner and authorized officers in respect of any action taken or omitted to be taken in good faith in connection with the carrying out of those duties shall not affect in any manner any liability of the Government for that action taken or omitted to be taken.

### Copyright Ordinance 《版權條例》

272B. Right to be identified as performer
(1) A performer of a live aural performance or a performer whose performance is fixed in a sound recording has the right to be identified as a performer in the performance whenever—
(a) the performance is staged in public or communicated to the public live; or (Amended 16 of 2022 s. 102)
(b) the sound recording in which the performance is fixed is communicated to the public or copies of such a sound recording are issued to the public. (Replaced 16 of 2022 s. 102)
(2) The right of the performer under this section is, in the case of the issue to the public of copies of a sound recording in which the performance is fixed, the right to be identified in or on each copy or, if that is not appropriate, in some other manner likely to bring his identity to the notice of a person acquiring a copy. (Amended 16 of 2022 s. 102)
(3) The right of the performer under this section is, in any case other than the case referred to in subsection (2), the right to be identified in a manner likely to bring his identity to the notice of a person hearing the performance or communication in question. (Amended 16 of 2022 s. 102)
(4) The rights of the performer referred to in subsections (2) and (3) include the right to be identified in a clear and reasonably prominent or audible manner.
(5) If the performer in asserting his right to be identified specifies a pseudonym, initials or some other particular form of identification, that form must be used; otherwise any reasonable form of identification may be used.
(6) If a performance is presented by performers who use a group name, identification by using the group name is sufficient identification of the performers in the group.

### Copyright Ordinance 《版權條例》

272C. Requirement that right under section 272B be asserted
(1) A person does not infringe the right conferred by section 272B (right to be identified as performer) by doing any of the acts referred to in that section unless the right has been asserted in accordance with the following provisions so as to bind him in relation to that act.
(2) The right may be asserted generally, or in relation to any specified act or description of acts—
(a) on an assignment of a performer’s economic rights conferred by Part III in a live aural performance that has taken place or is to take place or in a performance that has been fixed or is to be fixed in a sound recording, by including in the instrument effecting the assignment a statement that the performer asserts in relation to that performance or that performance fixed in the sound recording his right to be identified; or
(b) by instrument in writing signed by the performer.
(3) The persons bound by an assertion of the right under subsection (2) are—
(a) in the case of an assertion under subsection (2)(a), the assignee and anyone claiming through him, whether he has notice of the assertion;
(b) in the case of an assertion under subsection (2)(b), anyone to whose notice the assertion is brought.
(4) In an action for infringement of the right the court shall, in considering remedies, take into account any delay in asserting the right.

272D. Exceptions to right under section 272B
(1) The right conferred by section 272B (right to be identified as performer) does not apply where it is not reasonably practicable to identify the performer.
(2) The right does not apply in relation to a performance given for the purposes of reporting current events.
(3) The right does not apply in relation to a performance given for the purposes of advertising any goods or services or making announcements of matters of public interest.
(4) The right is not infringed by an act which by virtue of any of the following provisions would not infringe any right conferred by Part III—
(a) section 241 (criticism, review, quotation, and reporting and commenting on current events); (Replaced 16 of 2022 s. 103)
(ab) section 241A (parody, satire, caricature and pastiche); (Added 16 of 2022 s. 103)
(b) section 242 (incidental inclusion of performance or fixation);
(c) section 243(2) (examination questions);
(d) section 246B (Legislative Council);
(e) section 247 (judicial proceedings);
(f) section 248 (statutory inquiries).