While the existing Copyright Act B.E. 2537 (A.D. 1994) does not
provide any protection for “rights management information”, and
“technological protection measures”, the Copyright Act (No. 2) grants
protection for “rights management information”, “technological
protection measures”, and against “avoidance of technological
protection measures”. These are particularly relevant to electronic
copyrights and performers’ rights in the form of computer code. Any
act which is deemed an attempt to circumvent copyrights is considered
an “avoidance of technological protection measures”. To indemnify
the copyright holders, the Act introduces a court petition process for
parties to compel service providers to cease and remove hosting
infringing content. In addition, the Act introduces penalties for the
violation of rights management information with a fine from 10,000
baht to 100,000 baht. If the infringement is committed for commercial