Parliament of Singapore

“ Where the affairs of a body corporate are managed by its members, subsection (1) applies in relation to the acts and defaults of a member in connection with his or her functions of management as if he or she were a director of the body corporate. ”

“ Reading an extract of an adaptation of a literary work is a permitted use of the work under section 295 if the adaptation has been published, the extract is of a reasonable length, and the work is sufficiently acknowledged. ”

“ A person may circumvent an access control measure by doing an act in relation to a protected copy if—
(a) the act is done in the course of research on any encryption technology and is needed to conduct that research; (b) the person— (i) is engaged in a legitimate course of study in the field of encryption technology; (ii) is employed or appropriately trained or experienced in that field; or (iii) is doing the act on behalf of a person so engaged, employed, trained or experienced; (c) the act is done in good faith; (d) the protected copy is not an infringing copy ”

“ Where a copyright owner has the exclusive right to do an act—
(a) the right is a right to exclude others from doing that act (or authorising the doing of that act) without the authorisation of the copyright owner; and (b) it is declared that the right is not a positive right of the copyright owner to do that act. (2) To avoid doubt, where a copyright owner has the right to be paid equitable remuneration for the doing of an act, the right is not a positive right of the copyright owner to do that act. ”

“ Y requires the commissioned work for any particular purpose, that purpose must be communicated to X and X is entitled to restrain the doing, otherwise than for that particular purpose, of any act comprised in the copyright in the commissioned work. ”

“ X knows that the implication in paragraph (b) (i) or (ii) (as the case may be) is false; and
(d) X— (i) publishes the copy; (ii) deals commercially in the copy; or (iii) distributes the copy. (5) For the purposes of subsection (4) , “copy”, in relation to a work, includes the work itself.
(6) To avoid doubt, X and F could be the same person.
(7) In the case of a work of joint authorship, an infringement of the right in subsection (1) is an infringement of each joint author’s right.
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A1 and A2 are the joint authors of an authorial work. ”

“ On the author’s death, the reversionary interest in the copyright expectant on the expiry of 25 years after the death of the author devolves, despite any contrary agreement, to the legal personal representative of the author as part of the author’s estate.
(4) Any agreement entered into by the author is void to the extent that it purports to dispose of the interest that devolves under subsection (3) .
(5) This section does not apply to—
(a) the assignment of the copyright in a collective work; or (b) a licence to publish a work or a part of a work as part of a collective work. ”

“ A customs officer may seize goods (whether or not they are infringing goods) if—
(a) a request to seize is made in respect of the goods; (b) the goods are imported or proposed to be exported; (c) the request is made in accordance with section 332; (d) the request is in force; (e) the requestor has deposited any sum of money, or gave any security, required under section 349; and (f) the goods are not goods in transit. Notice to bring action after seizure
335.— (1) After goods have been seized under section 334, the Director-General must give written notice to the requestor and the dealer. ”

“ A “computer program” is an expression (in any language, code or notation) of a set of instructions (whether with or without related information) intended to—
(a) directly cause a device with information processing capabilities to perform a particular function; or (b) cause a device with information processing capabilities to perform a particular function after— (i) converting the instructions into another language, code or notation ”

“ A country may be prescribed as a non-reciprocating country only if the Minister considers that the law of the country does not give adequate protection to—
(a) works (or any class of works) protected by copyright under this Act; or (b) performances (or any class of performances) protected under this Act. (3) Without limiting subsection (2) , the inadequacy of protection may relate to the nature of the work or performance, or the nationality, citizenship or country of residence of the person who made the work or gave the performance. ”

“ A suspension order may not be made against a body administering an educational institution if the Tribunal is satisfied that the body has taken all reasonable steps to ensure that no further record-keeping offences will be committed in relation to copies made by or on behalf of the body. ”

“ When a performer dies—
(a) the performer’s moral rights devolve to his or her personal legal representative; and (b) any damages recovered in an action under section 402 by the personal legal representative form part of the performer’s estate. (2) To avoid doubt, any consent or waiver given by a performer in relation to the performer’s moral rights binds his or her personal legal representative. ”

“ Where an offence under this Act committed by an unincorporated association (other than a partnership) is proved—
(a) to have been committed with the consent or connivance of an officer of the unincorporated association or a member of its governing body; or (b) to be attributable to any neglect on the part of such an officer or member, the officer or member as well as the unincorporated association shall be guilty of the offence and shall be liable to be proceeded against and punished accordingly. ”

“ If an infringement action is brought in relation to seized goods, the Court may, on the application of a person having sufficient interest in the seized goods, allow the person to be joined as a defendant. ”