Division 1 — General provisions

183 Permitted uses are not rights infringements

184 Permitted uses are independent

185 Permitted uses may go beyond scope of copyright or protection of performances

186 Permitted uses may be excluded or restricted by reasonable contract term

187 Permitted uses that may not be excluded or restricted

188 Evasion through choice of law clause to be void

189 What is sufficient acknowledgment of an authorial work

Division 2 — Fair use

190 Fair use is permitted use

191 Relevant matters in deciding whether use is fair

192 Additional requirement for sufficient acknowledgment where use is for certain purposes

193 Deemed fair use where work or recording included in fairly‑used work

194 Deemed fair use where reasonable portion of article copied for research or study

Division 3 — Education and educational institutions

195 Interpretation: when is a copy or recording made or used for the educational purposes of an educational institution

196 Copying authorial work by non‑reprographic means for course of education

197 Copying or communicating very small portions of literary or dramatic work for course of education provided by educational institutions

198 Copying or communicating material for educational purposes of educational institutions

199 Suspension of section 198 for contravention of record‑keeping requirements

200 Copying broadcasts or cable programmes for educational purposes

201 Copying for purposes of teaching or learning film making

202 Things done for purposes of examination

203 Inclusion of authorial work in collections for use by educational institutions

204 Using material available on Internet for educational purposes

205 Performances by students or staff of educational institutions, etc.

Division 4 — Persons with print disabilities

206 Material to which this Division applies

207 Interpretation: what is an accessible format

208 Interpretation: what is an accessible format copy

209 Interpretation: what is a new copy of an accessible format copy

210 Interpretation: what does it mean to make an accessible format copy available to persons with print disabilities or a foreign institution

211 Making, distributing or making available accessible format copies for Singapore residents with print disabilities

212 Making or making available accessible format copies for foreign institutions or non‑resident persons with print disabilities

213 Receiving, importing or distributing accessible format copies from foreign institutions

214 Making of accessible format copy by person with print disability for personal use

215 Copyright not to vest by virtue of making accessible format copy for persons with print disability

216 Rights owner’s right to license or authorise not affected

Division 5 — Persons with intellectual disabilities

217 Copying by institution aiding persons with intellectual disabilities — authorial works

218 Copying, etc., by institution aiding persons with intellectual disability — protected performances

219 Copyright not to vest by virtue of making copy for aiding persons with intellectual disabilities

220 Rights owner’s right to license or authorise not affected

Division 6 — Public collections: galleries, libraries, archives and museums

221 Interpretation: what is an article in a periodical publication

222 Public use and enjoyment — copying for public exhibition

223 Public use and enjoyment — publicising public exhibition

224 Public use and enjoyment — performing for public exhibition

225 Public use and enjoyment — making collection available on network of public collection

226 Research or study — copying and communicating material for users of public collection

227 Research or study — copying originals for use on premises of public collection

228 Research or study — copying or communicating unpublished thesis in university library or archive

229 Research, study or publication — copying or communicating unpublished old material in public collection

230 Publication — publishing unpublished old authorial works in public collection

231 Publication — communicating, performing, etc., authorial work published under section 230

232 Preservation and replacement — copying material in public collection

233 Administration — copying or communicating material in public collection

234 Supplying copies of published literary, dramatic or musical works or articles between libraries and archives

235 Protection of libraries and archives when infringing copies made on machines installed by them

236 Copying online material for National Library Board collection

Division 7 — Use of computer programs

237 Making back‑up copy of computer program

238 Copying electronic compilation or computer program when essential for use

239 Decompilation of computer program by lawful user

240 Observing, studying and testing of computer program by lawful user

241 Copying or adapting of computer program by lawful user

242 Interpretation: who is a lawful user

Division 8 — Computational data analysis

243 Interpretation: what is computational data analysis

244 Copying or communicating for computational data analysis

Division 9 — Communication of sound recordings and recordings of protected performances

245 Interpretation: what is an interactive service

246 Communication by analogue broadcast

247 Communication by non‑interactive digital broadcast

248 Communication by other analogue or non‑interactive digital transmission

Division 10 — Films

249 Films depicting historical events

250 Using record of sounds in films

Division 11 — Broadcasting, cable programmes and simulcasting

251 Making sound recordings or films of literary, dramatic and musical works for broadcasting

252 Making films of artistic works for television broadcasting or cable programmes

253 Copying sound recordings or recordings of performances for broadcasting

254 Checking whether broadcast of sound recording or recording of performance is lawful

255 Making sound recordings or films of literary, dramatic or musical works for simulcasting

256 Copying sound recordings, recordings of performances, or films for simulcasting

257 Reception of broadcasts or cable programmes

258 Deemed copyright licences when receiving or transmitting broadcasts or cable programmes

Division 12 — Making musical records

259 Interpretation and scope of this Division

260 Conditions for making musical records

261 Conditions for including literary or dramatic work in musical record

262 Regulations and inquiry on amount of royalties

263 Regulations on other matters

264 Modifications relating to records made before 10 April 1987

Division 13 — Artistic works

265 Buildings and certain artistic works in public places

266 Incidental inclusion in film, television broadcast or cable programme

267 Copying artistic work in different dimensions

268 Copying part of artistic work in later artistic work

269 Reconstruction of buildings

Division 14 — Artistic works with corresponding designs and industrially applied artistic works

270 Interpretation of this Division

271 Purpose of this Division

272 Artistic work with corresponding design that is or was registered under Registered Designs Act

273 Modification of section 272 if registration is false

274 Artistic work with industrially‑applied corresponding design that could have been registered under Registered Designs Act

275 Artistic works that have been industrially applied

276 Application to artistic works made before 10 April 1987

Division 15 — Material in public registers, publicly disclosed material and data sharing within public sector

277 Interpretation: what is a public register

278 Copying or communicating material in public registers

279 Copying literary or artistic works in public registers

280 Interpretation: what is publicly disclosed material

281 Copying or communicating publicly disclosed material

282 Copying literary or artistic works that are publicly disclosed material

283 Data sharing within public sector

Division 16 — Acts for service of Government

284 Interpretation: what is a public act

285 Public act is permitted use

286 Terms for doing public act

287 Public act does not constitute publication

288 Protection of purchaser in sale in the course of public act

289 Modification when exclusive copyright licence in force

Division 17 — Judicial proceedings and legal advice

290 Acts done for judicial proceedings

291 Acts done for seeking legal advice

Division 18 — Miscellaneous

292 Temporary copies made in the course of communication

293 Temporary copies made in user caching

294 Transfer of electronic copy of material

295 Reading or recitation of literary or dramatic works

296 Religious performances of literary, dramatic or musical works

297 Using adaptations of literary, dramatic or musical works

298 Copying published editions of authorial work in course of permitted use of authorial work

299 Private and domestic use

300 Recording performance, etc., in mistaken belief of authorisation

Division 19 — Notation of copies

301 When and how should a copy be notated

302 Presumptions relating to notated copy

303 Making false or misleading notation