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225. Sections 119 and 120 shall not apply to an infringement of copyright under the Copyright Act 1911 and shall not affect any proceedings under that Act, whether instituted before or after the commencement of this Act.
226. Division 3 of Part V shall not apply in relation to a licence granted before the commencement of this Act and shall not affect any proceedings under the Copyright Act 1911, whether instituted before or after the commencement of this Act.
227. For the purposes of Division 5 of Part V, the definition of “infringing copy” in section 7 shall apply as if any reference in that definition to copyright included a reference to copyright under the Copyright Act 1911.
228. Section 141 shall not apply in relation to an infringement of copyright under the Copyright Act 1911 or to an article made, or imported into Singapore, before the commencement of this Act.
229. Where —
(a)
before the date of commencement of this Act, a notice had been given in respect of a work under section 14 of the Copyright Act 1911 as amended in its application to Singapore; and
(b)
that notice had not been withdrawn, and had not otherwise ceased to have effect, before that date,
the notice shall, during the period of 6 months commencing on that date, have such effect (if any) as it would have if it had been duly given in accordance with section 142.
230.
—(1) Part VII shall apply in relation to licence schemes formulated before the date of commencement of this Act in like manner as it applies in relation to licence schemes formulated on or after that date, but, for the purposes of the application of that Part in relation to licence schemes formulated before that date, any reference in that Part to copyright includes a reference to copyright under the Copyright Act 1911.
(2) Any reference in section 163 to a refusal or failure to grant or procure the grant of a licence, or to a proposal that a licence should be granted, shall not include a reference to a refusal or failure that occurred, or a proposal that was made, before the commencement of this Act.
231. Section 197(4) shall apply in relation to photographs taken before the commencement of this Act as if the proviso to that subsection were omitted.
232. Section 197(5) shall apply in relation to sound recordings made before the commencement of this Act as if the reference in that section to the expiration of the calendar year in which the recording is first published were a reference to the expiration of the calendar year in which the recording was made.
233.
—(1) Section 197(5) shall not apply in relation to cinematograph films made before the commencement of this Act.
(2) Where section 197(5) does not apply in relation to a cinematograph film by reason of subsection (1) —
(a)
if the film was an original dramatic work as defined by section 205 — section 197(1), (2) and (3), shall apply, in relation to that work in accordance with section 221(1); and
(b)
section 197(1), (2) and (3) as modified by section 231, shall apply in relation to photographs forming part of the film in like manner as they apply in relation to photographs not forming part of a cinematograph film.
234.
—(1) Section 185(3) shall not apply in relation to works made before the commencement of this Act.
(2) Section 185(4) shall not apply in relation to works first published before the commencement of this Act.
235.
—(1) Section 185(3) shall not apply in relation to sound recordings or cinematograph films made before the commencement of this Act.
(2) Section 185(4) shall not apply in relation to sound recordings or cinematograph films first published before the commencement of this Act.
(3) Section 185(5) shall not apply in relation to an edition published before the commencement of this Act.
236.
—(1) It is a breach of the duty imposed on a person by section 188 if the person does, on or after the date of commencement of this Act, any of the acts mentioned in subsection (1)(b) and (c) of that section notwithstanding that the name concerned was inserted or affixed before that date.
(2) Subject to subsection (1), Part IX shall not apply in relation to acts done before the commencement of this Act.
(3) In this section, “name” includes initials or a monogram.
237.
—(1) Subject to this section, where copyright subsists in a work by virtue of this Act, any document that was made, or event that occurred, before the commencement of this Act, being a document or event that had any operation affecting the ownership of, or creating, transferring or terminating an interest, right or licence in respect of, copyright in the work under the Copyright Act 1911 or would have had such an operation if that Act had continued in force, shall have the like operation in relation to the copyright in the work under this Act.
(2) If the operation of a document to which subsection (1) applies was or would have been limited to a period specified in the document, the document shall not have any operation in relation to the copyright under this Act, except insofar as that period extends after the commencement of this Act.
(3) For the purposes of the operation of a document in accordance with this section —
(a)
expressions used in the document shall have the same respective meanings as they had immediately before the commencement of this Act, whether or not those expressions have different meanings for the purposes of this Act; and
(b)
section 195(1) shall not apply.
(4) Without prejudice to the generality of subsection (1), where the author of a work that was made before the commencement of this Act was the first owner of the copyright in the work —
(a)
any assignment of the copyright, or any grant of an interest in the copyright, made by the author (otherwise than by will) after the commencement of the Copyright Act 1911 and before the commencement of this Act, being an assignment or grant that has effect in relation to copyright in the work under this Act by virtue of subsection (1), shall not operate to vest in the assignee or grantee any rights with respect to the copyright in the work after the expiration of 25 years after the date of the death of the author;
(b)
on the death of the author, the reversionary interest in the copyright expectant on the termination of that period shall devolve, notwithstanding any agreement to the contrary, on his legal personal representative as part of his estate; and
(c)
any agreement entered into by the author as to the disposition of that reversionary interest is of no force or effect,
but nothing in this subsection shall be taken to apply to the assignment of the copyright in a collective work or a licence to publish a work or a part of a work as part of a collective work.
(5) In subsection (4), expressions that are defined by section 205 have the meanings respectively given to those expressions by that section and shall not have the meanings, if any, respectively given to those expressions by Part II.
(6) Subsections (1) to (5) shall apply in relation to copyright under this Act in a sound recording or in a cinematograph film in like manner as they apply in relation to copyright in a work but a reference in those subsections to the copyright under the Copyright Act 1911 shall —
(a)
in the application of those subsections in relation to a sound recording — be read as a reference to the copyright under that Act in records embodying the recording; and
(b)
in the application of those subsections in relation to a cinematograph film — be read as a reference to any copyright under that Act in the film (insofar as it constituted a dramatic work for the purposes of that Act) or in photographs forming part of the film.
238.
—(1) Section 196 shall not apply in relation to a bequest contained in the will of a testator who died before the commencement of this Act.
(2) Where —
(a)
an author has died before the commencement of this Act;
(b)
a person has acquired, under the will of the author, the ownership of a manuscript of a work by the author; and
(c)
the work —
(i)
has not been published;
(ii)
in the case of a dramatic or musical work — has not been performed in public; and
(iii)
in the case of a lecture — has not been delivered in public,
the ownership by that person of the manuscript shall be evidence that that person is the owner of the copyright in the work.
(3) In subsection (1), expressions that are defined by section 205 shall have the meanings respectively given to those expressions by that section and shall not have the meanings, if any, respectively given to those expressions by Part II.
239.
—(1) The Copyright Act 1911 shall apply to a computer program made before the commencement of this Act as it applies in relation to a literary work and shall so apply whether or not copyright would subsist in that program apart from this Act.
(2) Where, by virtue of subsection (1), copyright subsists under the Copyright Act 1911 in a computer program that was made before the commencement of this Act, nothing done in relation to the work before the commencement of this Act shall be taken to constitute an offence under the Copyright Act (Cap. 187) which is repealed by this Act or an infringement of that copyright.
(3) For the purposes of this section, a computer program the making of which extends over a period shall be deemed not to have been made before the commencement of this Act unless the making of it was completed before the commencement of this Act.