Singapore legislation

Clause 6

of Copyright (Amendment) Bill

Clause 6

Amendment of section 22

Section 22 of the Copyright Act is amended —

(a)

by deleting subsections (1), (2) and (3) and substituting the following subsections:“(1) Subject to this section, unless the context otherwise requires, a reference in this Act to “performance” shall —

(a)

be read as including a reference to any mode of visual or aural presentation, whether the presentation is by the use of any receiving apparatus, by the exhibition of a cinematograph film, by the use of a record or by any other means; and

(b)

in relation to a lecture, an address, a speech or a sermon, be read as including a reference to delivery,and a reference in this Act to performing a work or an adaptation of a work shall have a corresponding meaning.(2) For the purpose of this Act, the communication of a work or other subject-matter to the public shall not —

(a)

constitute a performance; or

(b)

amount to causing visual images to be seen or sounds to be heard.(3) For the purposes of this Act, where visual images are displayed or sounds are emitted by any receiving apparatus to which they are communicated, the operation of any device or equipment by which the images or sounds are communicated, directly or indirectly, to the receiving apparatus does not constitute a performance or amount to causing images to be seen or sounds to be heard but, insofar as the display of the images or emission of the sounds constitutes a performance, or causes the images to be seen or the sounds to be heard, the performance, or the causing of the images to be seen or sounds to be heard, as the case may be, shall be deemed to be effected by the operation of the receiving apparatus.”; and

(b)

by deleting the word “apparatus” wherever it appears in subsection (4) and substituting in each case the words “device or equipment”.

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