ARTICLE · 15 SEPTEMBER 1997
Copyright Protection In Singapore - Offences
SingaporeIntellectual Property
The following are situations where a person would have committed a statutory offence under the Copyrignt Act:
(1)A person who:
(a)makes for sale or hire,
(b)sells or lets for hire, or by way of trade offers or exposes for sale or hire,
(c)by way of trade exhibits in public,
(d)imports into Singapore, otherwise than for private and domestic use, or
(e)distributes for purposes of trade or for other purposes that affect prejudicially the owner of the copyright any article which he knows, or ought reasonably to know, to be an infringing copy of a copyrighted work.
(2)A person who makes or has in his possession a plate or similar contrivance for the purpose of making sound recordings or audio-visual productions in contravention of (1)(a) to (d) which he knows, or ought reasonably to know, that it is to be used for making infringing copies of a copyrighted work.
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