Singapore legislation

Clause 3

of Copyright (Amendment) Bill

Clause 3

Amendment of section 15

Section 15 of the Copyright Act is amended —

(a)

by inserting, immediately after subsection (1A), the following subsection:“(1B) Without limiting the meaning of the term “reproduced”, for the purposes of this Act, a literary, dramatic, musical or artistic work, including a reproduction of such work in the form of a sound recording or cinematographic film, is reproduced if it is converted into or from a digital or other electronic machine-readable form, and any article embodying the work or reproduction of the work in such a form is taken to be a reproduction of the work.”; and

(b)

by deleting the words “Subsections (1) and (1A)” in subsection (2) and substituting the words “Subsections (1), (1A) and (1B)”.

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