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(2) In this section, “judicial proceeding” means a proceeding before any court, tribunal or person having by law power to hear, receive and examine evidence on oath.

Acts done for seeking legal advice

291. It is a permitted use of a work or protected performance to do anything—

(a) for the purpose of seeking professional advice from an advocate and solicitor; or
(b) for the purpose of, or in the course of, the giving of professional advice by an advocate and solicitor.

Division 18—Miscellaneous

Temporary copies made in the course of communication

292.—(1) If the conditions in subsection (2) are met, it is a permitted use to make a temporary copy of—

(a) a work; or
(b) a recording of a protected performance.

(2) The conditions are—

(a) the temporary copy is made incidentally as part of the technical process of making or receiving a communication;
(b) the act of making the communication is not a rights infringement;
(c) the communicated copy—
(i) is made in Singapore and is not an infringing copy of the work or performance; and
(ii) is made outside Singapore and would not, had it been made in Singapore, be an infringing copy of the work or performance; and
(d) if the work is an adaptation of a literary, dramatic or musical work, the communicated copy—