On 25/05/2013,
you requested for the version in force on 25/05/2013
incorporating all amendments published on or before 25/05/2013.
The closest version currently available is that of 28/03/2013.
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.
32. The copyright in a literary, dramatic, musical or artistic work is infringed by a person who, without the licence of the owner of the copyright, imports an article into Singapore for the purpose of —
(a)
selling, letting for hire, or by way of trade offering or exposing for sale or hire, the article;
(b)
distributing the article —
(i)
for the purpose of trade; or
(ii)
for any other purpose to an extent that will affect prejudicially the owner of the copyright; or
(c)
by way of trade exhibiting the article in public,
where he knows, or ought reasonably to know, that the making of the article was carried out without the consent of the owner of the copyright.
[Aust. 1968, s. 37]
33.
—(1) The copyright in a literary, dramatic, musical or artistic work is infringed by a person who, in Singapore, and without the licence of the owner of the copyright —
(a)
sells, lets for hire, or by way of trade offers or exposes for sale or hire, an article; or
(b)
by way of trade exhibits an article in public,
where he knows, or ought reasonably to know, that the making of the article constituted an infringement of the copyright or, in the case of an imported article, the making of the article was carried out without the consent of the owner of the copyright.
(2) For the purposes of subsection (1), the distribution of any articles —
(a)
for the purpose of trade; or
(b)
for any other purpose to an extent that affects prejudicially the owner of the copyright concerned,
shall be taken to be the sale of those articles.
[Aust. 1968, s. 38]
34. Where —
(a)
a person makes an infringing copy of, or part of, a work or a published edition of a work or of 2 or more works on a machine for the making, by reprographic reproduction, of copies of documents, being a machine installed by or with the approval of the body administering a library or archives on the premises of the library or archives, or outside those premises for the convenience of persons using the library or archives; and
(b)
there is affixed to, or in close proximity to, the machine, in a place readily visible to persons using the machine, a notice of the prescribed dimensions and in accordance with the prescribed form,
neither the body administering the library or archives nor the officer-in-charge of the library or archives shall be taken to have authorised the making of the infringing copy by reason only that the copy was made on that machine.
[Aust. 1968, s. 39]