Singapore legislation
Section 16
Section 16
Provisions relating to the making of a work or other subject-matter
(1)
A reference in this Act to the time when, or the period during which, a literary, dramatic or musical work was made shall be read as a reference to the time when, or the period during which, as the case may be, the work was first reduced to writing or to some other material form.
(2)
For the purposes of this Act, a literary, dramatic or musical work that exists in the form of sounds embodied in an article or thing shall be deemed to have been reduced to a material form and to have been so reduced at the time when those sounds were embodied in that article or thing.
(3)
For the purposes of this Act —
a sound recording shall be deemed to have been made at the time when the first record embodying the recording was produced; and
the maker of the sound recording is the person who owned that record at that time.
(4)
For the purposes of this Act —
a reference to the making of a cinematograph film shall be read as a reference to the doing of the things necessary for the production of the first copy of the film; and
the maker of the cinematograph film is the person by whom the arrangements necessary for the making of the film were undertaken.
(5)
For the purposes of this Act, a television broadcast or sound broadcast shall be deemed to have been made by the person by whom, at the time when, and from the place from which —
the visual images or sounds in question, or both, as the case may be, are broadcast; or
in the case of a television broadcast or sound broadcast made by the technique known as direct broadcasting by satellite, the visual images or sounds in question, or both, as the case may be, are transmitted to the satellite transponder.
(6)
For the purposes of this Act, a communication other than a broadcast is taken to have been made by the person responsible for determining the content of the communication at the time the communication is made. [Aust. 1968, s. 22]