(a) Any court having jurisdiction of a civil action arising under this title may, subject to the provisions of section 1498 of title 28, grant temporary and final injunctions on such terms as it may deem reasonable to prevent or restrain infringement of a copyright. Unauthorized Copies of Recorded Materials Act, 1991 ". But merely making such copies in the Marshall Islands will not make the infringer safe from civil actions, nor will it make the copies lawful in the US, nor in most other countries. And in any case the copyright owner might not choose to take legal action. Of course, if such copies were made in small numbers and distributed privately, the copyright owner might not learn of it. Also, If an infringement suit is won, the court an order any infringing copies to be seized adn destroyed. In the US, infringing copies could be seized by customs officers when they are imported into the US. Ī copyright suit could be brought by the copyright owner in any country where the unauthorized copies are distributed and, if damages were awarded, property subject to the jurisdiction of the court could be seized to pay them. In addition, the copyright owner could send a takedown order under the US Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA). Similar orders can be obtained under the laws of other countries. However, if a person goes to the Marshall Islands, makes unauthorized copies of works there, and posts those copies to the net, the copyright owner could obtain an injunction under US copyright law requiring the site operator or host to remove the infringing content or be shut down.
According to the Wikipedia article "List of countries' copyright lengths" the only country currently having no copyright law is the Marshall Islands, and that country is said to have a non-copyright-based law providing that "Unauthorized sale or commercial use of sound & audio-visual recordings is prohibited"
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