Under the Copyright Act Cap 63 Section 25(1) &
(2),
In the case of a copyright of which (whether as a result of a
partial assignment or otherwise) different persons are the owners
in respect of its application to —
(a) the doing of different acts or classes of acts; or
(b) the doing of one or more acts or classes of acts in
different countries or at different times,
the owner of the copyright, for any purpose of this Act,
shall be deemed to be the person who is the owner of the copyright
in respect of its application to the doing of the particular act or
class of acts, or to the doing of the particular act or class of
acts in the particular country or at the particular time, as the
case may be, that is relevant to that purpose, and a reference in
this Act to the prospective owner of a future copyright of which
different persons are the prospective owners shall have a
corresponding meaning.
Without prejudice to subsection (1), where under any provision
of this Act a question arises whether an article of any description
has been imported or sold, or otherwise dealt with, without the
licence of the owner of any copyright, the owner of the copyright,
for the purpose of determining that question, shall be taken to be
the person entitled to the copyright in respect of its application
to the making of articles of that description in the country into
which the article was imported, or, as the case may be, in which it
was sold or otherwise dealt with.
And in Section 27(2),
Subject to the provisions of this Act, where an original
literary, dramatic, musical or artistic work has been published
—
(a) copyright shall subsist in the work; or
(b) if copyright in the work subsisted immediately before its
first publication, copyright shall continue to subsist in the
work,
if, but only if —
(c) the first publication of the work took place in
Singapore;
(d) the author of the work was a qualified person at the time
when the work was first published; or
(e) the author died before that time but was a qualified person
immediately before his death
From Section 31(1):
Subject to the provisions of this Act, the copyright in a
literary, dramatic, musical or artistic work is infringed by a
person who, not being the owner of the copyright, and without the
licence of the owner of the copyright, does in Singapore, or
authorises the doing in Singapore of, any act comprised in the
copyright.
All quoted from Singapore Statutes Online
Whee! Long posts. So why did you post this up. 8112 is gone.
never to return.
