Singapore legislation
Clause 6
Clause 6
Amendment of section 39
Section 39 of the Copyright Act is amended —
by deleting subsection (2) and substituting the following subsection:“(2) Subsection (1) shall not apply to the making of a reproduction of a computer program, or of an adaptation of a computer program, from an infringing copy of the computer program.”; and
by deleting subsection (4) and substituting the following subsections:“(4) Where an act is permitted under this section, it is irrelevant whether or not there exists any term or condition in an agreement which purports to prohibit or restrict the act, and such a term or condition shall, in so far as it purports to prohibit or restrict the act, be void.(5) For the purposes of this section, a reference to a copy of a computer program or of an adaptation of a computer program is a reference to any article in which the computer program or adaptation is reproduced in a material form.”.