Singapore legislation

Clause 16

of Copyright (Amendment) Bill

Clause 16

Amendment of section 51

Section 51 of the Copyright Act is amended —

(a)

by inserting, immediately after subsection (1), the following subsection:“(1A) Copyright in a literary or dramatic work is not infringed by the communication of a part of the work in an edition of the work by any person if the communication is initiated from the premises of an educational institution for the purposes of a course of education provided by the institution.”;

(b)

by inserting, immediately after the words “making of a copy of” in subsections (2) and (3), the words “, and subsection (1A) does not apply to the communication of,”;

(c)

by deleting subsection (4) and substituting the following subsection:“(4) Subsection (1) does not apply to the making of a copy, and subsection (1A) does not apply to the communication, 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 or communicated exceeds, in the aggregate —

(a)

5% of the total number of bytes in the edition; and

(b)

5% of the total number of words in that edition or, where it is not practicable to use the total number of words as a measure, 5% of the contents of the edition.”;

(d)

by inserting, immediately after subsection (5), the following subsection:“(5A) Where —

(a)

a person communicates or causes to be communicated a part of a work; and

(b)

subsection (1A) applies to that communication,that subsection does not apply to the communication, by or on behalf of that person, of any other part of that work within 14 days after the day on which the previous communication was made.”; and

(e)

by inserting, immediately after the word “copying” in the section heading, the words “or communication”.