107E. Temporary copy made in course of communication
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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 —
copy
“copy”, in relation to a cinematograph film, means any article or thing in which the visual images or sounds comprising the film are embodied;
the copy is made incidentally as part of the technical process of making or receiving a communication; and
the act of making the communication itself does not constitute an infringement.
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 —
audio-visual item
“audio-visual item” means a sound recording, a cinematograph film, a sound broadcast, a television broadcast or a cable programme. [Aust. 1968, s. 100A]
is an infringing copy of the audio-visual item; or
is a copy that, if it had been made in Singapore, would have been an infringing copy of the audio-visual item.
Nothing in subsection (1) shall be construed as authorising any subsequent use of the temporary or transient copy of the audio-visual item. [Aust. 1968, s. 111A]