Singapore legislation

Clause 5

of Copyright (Amendment) Bill

Clause 5

Amendment of section 193A

Section 193A of the Copyright Act is amended —

(a)

by deleting the full-stop at the end of the definition of “routing” in subsection (1) and substituting a semi-colon, and by inserting immediately thereafter the following definition:“ “standard technical measure” means any technical measure accepted in Singapore that —

(a)

is used to identify or protect material;

(b)

has been developed through an open, voluntary process by a broad consensus of copyright owners and network service providers;

(c)

is available to any person on reasonable and non-discriminatory terms; and

(d)

does not impose substantial costs on network service providers or substantial burdens on their primary networks.”; and

(b)

by inserting, immediately after subsection (2), the following subsection:“(3) Nothing in this Part shall be construed as making the applicability of sections 193B, 193C, 193D and 193DB conditional on —

(a)

a network service provider monitoring its service or affirmatively seeking facts indicating infringing activity, except to the extent consistent with any standard technical measure; or

(b)

a network service provider gaining access to, removing or disabling access to any electronic copy of any material in any case in which such conduct is prohibited by law.”.

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