The Culture Ministry will hold a meeting with concerned bodies to discuss amendments to the laws on films and videos next week, Culture minister Nipit Intarasombat said Thursday.
He said the meeting would discuss the penalties for the unauthorised selling of VCDs, which are currently the same as those applied to theatres showing unauthorised films and considered unjust.
Nipit said police, attorneys as well as film and videos business operators would be invited.
The law has been widely criticised after a city garbage collector was fined Bt133,000 for selling VCDs he salvaged from the trash. Another man was arrested for selling his son's old VCD movies on a Bangkok pedestrian bridge.
Meanwhile, other sellers have not been arrested although they were also allegedly violating the law.
Nipit said, "The ministry will push for this issue to be resolved after gathering opinions from all sides. It depends on how quickly the Parliament will be able to proceed once the draft law is proposed."