- (ii) to cause it, insofar as it consists of sounds, to be heard in public by a paying audience.
Duration of copyright in broadcasts
128. Subject to section 129, any copyright in a broadcast expires 50 years after the end of the year in which the broadcast is made.
Duration of copyright in repeat broadcasts
129.—(1) This section applies to a broadcast (called in this section a repeat broadcast) that—
- (a) repeats (whether for the first time or otherwise) an earlier broadcast (called in this section the original broadcast) that is made from a place in Singapore by the holder of a broadcasting licence; and
- (b) is made by broadcasting visual images or sounds embodied in any article or thing.
(2) If a repeat broadcast is made within 50 years after the end of the year in which the original broadcast is made, any copyright in the repeat broadcast expires at the end of those 50 years.
(3) If a repeat broadcast is not made within 50 years after the end of the year in which the original broadcast is made, there is no copyright in the repeat broadcast.
Division 7—Cable programmes
Conditions for copyright to subsist in cable programmes
130.—(1) Subject to the provisions of this Act, copyright subsists in a cable programme if the programme is included in a cable programme service that is provided by a qualified person in Singapore.
(2) Subsection (1) does not apply to a cable programme that is included in a cable programme service—
- (a) by the reception and immediate re-transmission of a broadcast; or
- (b) before 10 April 1987.
