Singapore legislation

Section 224

of Copyright Act 2021

Section 224

Public use and enjoyment — performing for public exhibitions

(1)

If the conditions in subsection (2) are met, it is a permitted use to do any of the following acts:

(a)

perform a literary, dramatic or musical work in public;

(b)

cause the visual images of a film to be seen in public or any sounds of the film to be heard in public (or both).

(2)

The conditions are —

(a)

the work or film is part of a public collection;

(b)

the act is authorised by the custodian of the public collection;

(c)

the act is for the purpose of an exhibition of the work or film that is held —

(i)

by or on behalf of the custodian of the public collection; and

(ii)

at any premises that are open to the public (whether for a fee or otherwise); and

(d)

the act is not the sole or main purpose of the exhibition.