COPYRIGHT ACT (CHAPTER 63)
COPYRIGHT (EXCLUDED WORKS) ORDER 2008
ARRANGEMENT OF PARAGRAPHS
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In exercise of the powers conferred by section 261D(2) of the Copyright Act, the Minister for Law hereby makes the following Order:
1. This Order may be cited as the Copyright (Excluded Works) Order 2008 and shall come into operation on 1st January 2009.
2. This Order shall remain in force until 31st December 2012.
3.—(1) In this Order, unless the context otherwise requires, ‘‘specialised format’’ means a format that —
(2) For the purposes of paragraph 4(a), a dongle shall be treated as obsolete if —
(c) its repair is no longer commercially available.
(3) For the purposes of paragraph 4(b), a computer program or video game shall be treated as being in an obsolete format if its contents can only be rendered perceptible by means of a machine or system that —
Works to which section 261C(1)(a) of Act shall not apply
4. Section 261C(1)(a) of the Act shall not apply to the following works:
where circumvention of a technological access control measure that has been applied to it is for the purpose of preservation or archival reproduction of published digital works by a library or archive;
(iii) an institute of technical education; or
(iv) other tertiary educational institution, that conducts courses in film or media studies, where circumvention of a technological access control measure that has been applied to the cinematograph film is carried out by any film or media studies lecturer, or any staff or employee acting on the instructions of such lecturer, of the university, polytechnic, institute of technical education or other tertiary educational institution (as the case may be) for the purpose of
making compilations of portions of the work for educational use in the classroom; and
(e) any sound recording or cinematograph film which is —
where circumvention of the technological access control measure that has been applied to the sound recording or cinematograph film is solely for the purpose of testing, investigating or correcting in good faith such security flaws or vulnerabilities.
Made this 18th day of December 2008. CHAN LAI FUNG
Permanent Secretary,
Ministry of Law,
Singapore.
[LAW 44/001/028 Vol. 1; AG/LEG/SL/63/2003/1 Vol. 3]