Singapore legislation

Clause 3

of Copyright (Amendment) Bill

Clause 3

Amendment of section 7

Section 7 of the Copyright Act is amended —

(a)

by deleting the definition of “literary work” in subsection (1);

(b)

by inserting, immediately after subsection (2), the following subsection:“(2A) Without limiting the meaning of the expression “reasonable portion” in this Act, where a literary, dramatic or musical work is contained in a published edition of that work, being an edition which is stored on any medium by electronic means and is not divided into pages, a copy of part of that work, as it appears in that edition, shall be taken to contain only a reasonable portion of that work if the part that is copied in the edition —

(a)

does not exceed, in the aggregate, 10% of the total number of bytes in that edition; or

(b)

in a case where the work is divided into chapters, exceeds, in the aggregate, 10% of the total number of bytes in that edition but contains only the whole or part of a single chapter of the work.”; and (c)by deleting the words “or a handicapped reader’s copy” in subsection (3)(k)(i) and substituting the words “a handicapped reader’s copy, or an intellectually handicapped reader’s copy”.

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