176. Infringing use — commercial dealing in unauthorised recordings, etc.

Subject to Part 5 (permitted uses), a person makes an infringing use of a protected performance if —

the person does any of the following acts:

deals commercially in a recording of the performance;

imports a recording of the performance for the purpose of commercially dealing;

the act is done —

when the performance is protected;

in Singapore; and

without the rights owner’s authority; and

the person knows or ought reasonably to know that the recording —

is made without the rights owner’s authority; and

either —

is made on or after 21 November 2021 in circumstances that constitute an infringing use of the performance under section 175; or

was made before 21 November 2021 in circumstances that constitute an unauthorised use of the performance under the 1987 Act.