Read the full judgment text of CACC 000245/2006 on BabelCite. This Court of Appeal judgment was delivered on 2 August 2007.
1. At trial the applicant faced four charges under the Copyright Ordinance, Cap. 528 (“the Ordinance”). He was acquitted on Charge 1 (possession of an infringing copy of a copyright work, contrary to section 118(1)(d)) but was convicted on Charges 2, 3 and 4 after a 13-day trial before District Judge Yuen. Charge 2 was another section 118(1)(d) offence involving 86,007 VCDs and 13,978 DVDs. Charge 3 was an offence of making 136,603 discs for sale, contrary to section 118(1)(a) and Charge 4 wa