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Property owner associations want to talk to the Domestic Trade and Consumers Affairs Ministry about proposed amendments to laws to make landlords liable for copyright infringement activities by their tenants.We have unanimously supported the government's effort in fighting against piracy but we are not agreeable to the proposal to hold owners and landlords liable for copyright infringements by their tenants," FIABCI Malaysia president Datuk Teo Chiang Kok said at a news conference Friday.Minister of Domestic Trade and Consumer Affairs Datuk Mohd Shafie Apdal said last month the government would amend copyright-related laws to make landlords and property owners liable for criminal offences if they continued to let their premises be used for selling or distributing pirated discs.The Recording Industry Association of Malaysia has also sued a shopping complex in Kuantan for allegedly renting its premises to disc pirates, in the first such case in the country.Teo said the associations would support official action if building owners were proven to be commercially involved in the illegal activity within their properties.
