Singapore legislation

Clause 7

of Copyright (Amendment) Bill

Clause 7

Amendment of section 23

Section 23 of the Copyright Act is amended —

(a)

by inserting, immediately after the words “the students” in subsections (1) and (2), the words “or staff”;

(b)

by deleting subsection (4) and substituting the following subsections:“(4) Subsections (2) and (3) shall apply in relation to cinematograph films, broadcasts, cable programmes and recordings of performances in like manner as they apply in relation to literary and dramatic works but, in the application of those subsections in relation to such films, broadcasts, cable programmes or recordings, any reference to the performance of the work shall be read as a reference to the act of causing the sounds concerned to be heard or the visual images concerned to be seen.(5) For the purposes of this section, the staff of an educational institution shall include —

(a)

any adjunct staff of the educational institution; and

(b)

any person engaged by the educational institution to conduct any course of instruction, activity or programme of or offered by the educational institution.”; and

(c)

by deleting the words “students, etc.” in the section heading and substituting the words “students or staff of educational institution, etc.”.