249. Private and domestic use
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For the purposes of this Part, a recording or a copy of such a recording shall be taken not to have been made for the private and domestic use of the person who made it if it is made for the purpose of —
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;
selling it, letting it for hire, or by way of trade offering or exposing it for sale or hire;
distributing it for the purposes of trade;
by way of trade exhibiting it in public;
broadcasting it or including it in a cable programme service; or
cable programme service
“cable programme service” means a service which consists wholly or mainly in the sending by any person, by means of a telecommunication system (whether run by him or by any other person), of sounds or visual images or both either —(a)for reception, otherwise than by wireless telegraphy, at 2 or more places in Singapore, whether they are so sent for simultaneous reception or at different times in response to requests made by different users of the service; or(b)for reception, by whatever means, at a place in Singapore for the purpose of their being presented there either to members of the public or to any group of persons;
causing it to be heard in public.