Singapore legislation

Section 203

of Copyright Act 2021

Section 203

Inclusion of authorial work in collections for use by educational institutions

(1)

If the conditions in subsection (2) are met, it is a permitted use to include a short extract of an authorial work in a collection of authorial works.

(2)

The conditions are —

(a)

the work has been published;

(b)

the work was not published for the purpose of being used by educational institutions;

(c)

the collection is contained in a book, sound recording or film;

(d)

the collection is intended for use by educational institutions and this intention is described —

(i)

in the book;

(ii)

on the label or container of each copy of the recording; or

(iii)

in the film;

(e)

the work is sufficiently acknowledged; and

(f)

the collection and any similar recent collection do not contain, in total, more than one other extract from —

(i)

any other authorial work (being a copyright work) by the same author; or

(ii)

any adaptation of a literary, dramatic or musical work (being a copyright work) by the same author.

(3)

For the purposes of this section —

(a)

2 authorial works (including adaptations) are taken to have the same author if the same person is —

(i)

the author or an author of both works; or

(ii)

the author of one work and an author of the other work; and

(b)

“similar recent collection” means a collection that is —

(i)

published by the same publisher that published the collection mentioned in subsection (1);

(ii)

published in the 5 years immediately before the publication of the collection mentioned in subsection (1);

(iii)

intended for use by educational institutions; and

(iv)

otherwise similar to the collection mentioned in subsection (1).