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Part 2 · Interpretation

37. What is a qualifying performance

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(1)

A “qualifying performance” is —

(a)

any of the following performances:

(i)

a performance (including an improvisation and a performance that uses puppets) of a dramatic work or part of the dramatic work;

(ii)

a performance (including an improvisation) of a musical work or part of the musical work;

(iii)

the reading, recitation or delivery of a literary work or part of the literary work, or the recitation or delivery of an improvised literary work;

(iv)

a performance of a dance;

(v)

a performance of a circus act or a variety act or any similar presentation or show; but(b)not any of the following performances:

(i)

the performance of a musical work by the students or staff of an educational institution (whether on the premises of the institution or elsewhere) in the presence of an audience and in the course of the activities of the institution;

(ii)

a reading, recital or delivery of any item of news and information;

(iii)

a performance of a sporting activity;

(iv)

a participation in a performance as a member of an audience;

(v)

a performance in a National Day Parade in Singapore;

(vi)

any prescribed performance.

(2)

For the purposes of subsection (1), it does not matter whether a performance is given —

(a)

before, on or after 21 November 2021; or

(b)

in the presence of an audience or otherwise.

Report

Part 3

Copyright in Works

Part 4

Protection of Performances

Part 5

Permitted Uses of Copyright Works and Protected Performances

Part 6

Remedies for and Border Enforcement Measures Against Rights Infringements

Part 7

Additional Rights Relating to Copyright Works and Protected Performances

Part 8

Offences

Part 9

Regulation of Collective Management Organisations

Part 10

Copyright Tribunals

Part 11

Miscellaneous

Part 12

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