Singapore legislation

Clause 17

Repeal and re-enactment of section 82

Section 82 of the Copyright Act is repealed and the following section substituted therefor:“Nature of copyright in sound recordings 82.—

(1)

For the purposes of this Act, unless the contrary intention appears, copyright, in relation to a sound recording, is the exclusive right to do all or any of the following acts:

(a)

to make a copy of the sound recording;

(b)

to enter into a commercial rental arrangement in respect of the recording.(2) Subsection (1)(b) shall not extend to entry into a commercial rental arrangement in respect of a sound recording if —

(a)

the copy of the sound recording, not being an infringing copy, was purchased by a person (referred to in this subsection as the record owner) before the commencement of the Copyright (Amendment) Act 1998;

(b)

the commercial rental arrangement is entered into in the ordinary course of a business conducted by the record owner; and

(c)

the record owner was conducting the same business, or another business that consisted of, or included, the making of commercial rental arrangements in respect of copies of sound recordings, when the copy was purchased.”.