Singapore legislation

Clause 10

of Copyright (Amendment) Bill

Clause 10

Repeal and re-enactment of section 51

Section 51 of the Copyright Act is repealed and the following section substituted therefor:“Multiple copying of insubstantial portions of works51.—

(1)

Copyright in a literary or dramatic work is not infringed by the making of one or more copies of a part of the work in an edition of the work by any person if the copying is carried out on the premises of an educational institution for the purposes of a course of education provided by the institution.(2) Subsection (1) does not apply to the making of a copy of the whole of a work.(3) Subsection (1) does not apply to the making of a copy of more than 5 of the pages of a work in an edition of the work unless —

(a)

there are more than 500 pages in the edition; and

(b)

the total number of pages so copied does not exceed 5% of the total number of pages in the edition.(4) Subsection (1) does not apply to the making of a copy of a part of a work in an edition of the work, being an edition stored on any medium by electronic means and not divided into pages, if the part copied exceeds, in the aggregate, 5% of the total number of bytes in the edition.(5) Where —

(a)

a person makes or causes to be made a copy of a part of a work; and

(b)

subsection (1) applies to the making of that copy,that subsection does not apply to the making, by or on behalf of that person, of a copy of any other part of that work within 14 days after the day on which the previous copy was made.(6) In this section —

(a)

a reference to an edition of a work includes a reference to an edition of works that include that work; and

(b)

a reference to the making of a copy of a part of a work on the premises of an educational institution for the purposes of a course of education provided by the institution includes a reference to the making of a copy of that part in an electronic form on a network operated or controlled by the educational institution concerned to enable persons undertaking a course of education provided by the educational institution to access the work.”.