ABSTRACT
Copyright infringement in Thailand is closely related to inappropriate and vague exceptions for
educational purposes provided for in the Thai Copyright Act (CA) 1994, which makes the law
ineffective and fails to adequately protect copyright owners' exclusive rights. This paper
recommends that the following steps be taken to address these issues: firstly, the educational
exception provisions in the Thai CA 1994 should be amended to be more restrictive and limited;
and secondly, the establishment of a Copyright Collecting Society (CCS) and licensing scheme
system in the Thai education sector should be completed together with the introduction of a
regulation and a governmental body to prevent the CCS from abusing its powers in an anticompetitive
way. Several lessons drawn from the Thai experience will be outlined as they may
be useful for policymakers and researchers in other countries.