148. Infringement by commercial dealing, etc.

a person does any of the following acts in Singapore:

deals commercially in an article; or

distributes an article to an extent that will prejudicially affect the copyright owner;

the act is done without the licence of the copyright owner; and

the person knows or ought reasonably to know that —

if the article is made in Singapore — the making of the article infringed the copyright; and

if the article is imported — the article was made without the consent of the copyright owner.

it does not matter whether the article is made before, on or after 21 November 2021; and

an article made before 21 November 2021 is to be treated as having been made in infringement of copyright if it was made in infringement of copyright under the 1911 Act or the 1987 Act, as the case may be.