Singapore legislation

Section 169

of Copyright Act 2021

Section 169

Presumptions as to anonymous or pseudonymous authorial work

(1)

This section applies if —

(a)

an authorial work is published;

(b)

the publication is anonymous or is alleged by the claimant to be pseudonymous; and

(c)

it is not proved that the work has an identified author.

(2)

The work is presumed to be original.

(3)

If the claimant alleges that a specified publication is the first publication of the work and that the first publication took place in a specified country and on a specified date —

(a)

the specified publication is presumed to be the first publication of the work; and

(b)

the first publication of the work is presumed to have taken place in the specified country and on the specified date.