Singapore legislation

Clause 4

Repeal and re-enactment of section 107E

Section 107E of the Copyright Act is repealed and the following section substituted therefor:“Temporary copy made in course of communication107E.—

(1)

Subject to subsection (2), the copyright in an audio-visual item is not infringed by the making of a temporary or transient copy of the audio-visual item if —

(a)

the copy is made incidentally as part of the technical process of making or receiving a communication; and

(b)

the act of making the communication itself does not constitute an infringement.(2) Subsection (1) shall not apply to the making of a temporary or transient copy of an audio-visual item if the copy of the audio-visual item that is communicated —

(a)

is an infringing copy of the audio-visual item; or

(b)

is a copy that, if it had been made in Singapore, would have been an infringing copy of the audio-visual item.(3) Nothing in subsection (1) shall be construed as authorising any subsequent use of the temporary or transient copy of the audio-visual item.”.