Singapore legislation

Clause 29

Amendment of section 252

Section 252 of the Copyright Act is amended by inserting, immediately after subsection (1), the following subsections:“(1A) A person makes an unauthorised use of a performance if the person, at any time on or after the commencement of the Copyright (Amendment) Act 1999 and during the protection period of the performance, and without the authority of the performer —

(a)

sells, lets for hire, or by way of trade exhibits in public or offers or exposes for sale or hire a recording of the performance that the person knows, or ought reasonably to know, is an unauthorised recording;

(b)

distributes a recording of the performance for the purposes of trade, being a recording that the person knows, or ought reasonably to know, is an unauthorised recording; or

(c)

imports a recording of the performance into Singapore for the purpose of —

(i)

selling it, letting it for hire, or by way of trade exhibiting it in public or offering or exposing it for sale or hire; or

(ii)

distributing it for the purposes of trade,being a recording that the person knows, or ought reasonably to know, is an unauthorised recording.(1B) A reference in this section to the making of a copy of a recording of a performance includes a reference to the making of a copy which is transient or is incidental to some other use of the recording.”.