future copyright of which different persons are the prospective owners shall have a corresponding meaning.
(2) Without prejudice to subsection (1), where under any provision of this Act a question arises whether an article of any description has been imported or sold, or otherwise dealt with, without the licence of the owner of any copyright, the owner of the copyright, for the purpose of determining that question, shall be taken to be the person entitled to the copyright in respect of its application to the making of articles of that description in the country into which the article was imported, or, as the case may be, in which it was sold or otherwise dealt with.
PART III
COPYRIGHT IN ORIGINAL LITERARY, DRAMATIC, MUSICAL AND ARTISTIC WORKS
Division 1—Nature, Duration and Ownership of Copyright in Works
Nature of copyright in original works
26. For the purposes of this Act, unless the contrary intention appears, copyright, in relation to a work, is the exclusive right—
- (a) in the case of a literary, dramatic or musical work, to do all or any of the following acts:
- (i) to reproduce the work in a material form;
- (ii) to publish the work in Singapore or any country in relation to which this Act applies, if the work is unpublished;
- (iii) to perform the work in public;
- (iv) to broadcast the work;
- (v) to include the work in a cable programme;
- (vi) to make an adaptation of the work;
- (vii) to do, in relation to a work that is an adaptation of the first-mentioned work, any of the acts specified in
