IMPLEMENTING AGENCY OF THE GOVERNMENT OF MONGOLIA

IMPLEMENTING AGENCY OF THE GOVERNMENT OF MONGOLIA

Respect for Intellectual Property

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28.6 million MNT in damages and compensation will be collected from the individual who violated the copyright.

In relation to citizen A's alleged use and sale of copyrighted videos online without the right holder's permission, the State Inspector of Intellectual Property opened a case of infringement based on Article 8.3, Part 1 of the Law on Infringement, and proceeded to investigate and resolve the infringement in relation to citizen B. As a result of the investigation, citizen B was found to have copied the copyrighted work without the permission of the copyright owner and sold it to others, so he was fined 500,000 MNT, 1,140,000 MNT illegally obtained was turned into state income, it was decided that citizen B will pay 28,6 million MNT compensation to citizen A.

B objected to this decision and appealed to the 3rd level court. The court dismissed the complaint and upheld the state inspector's decision, so the copyright infringer was ordered to pay 28.6 million MNT in damages and compensation.

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