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104
NO. 2 OF 1987


(a) that a person specified on the label or mark was the maker of the recording;
(b) that the recording was first published in a year specified on the label or mark; or
(c) that the recording was first published in a country specified on the label or mark,

that label or mark shall be sufficient evidence of the facts so stated except insofar as the contrary is established.

Presumptions in relation to maker of film

135. Where the name of a person appeared on copies of a cinematograph film as made available to the public in such a way as to imply that the person was the maker of the film and, in the case of a person other than a body corporate, that name was his true name or a name by which he was commonly known, that person shall, in an action brought by virtue of this Part, be presumed, unless the contrary is established, to be the maker of the film and to have made the film in circumstances to which section 98(3) does not apply.

Division 5—Offences

Offences

136.—(1) A person who at a time when copyright subsists in a work—

(a) makes for sale or hire;
(b) sells or lets for hire, or by way of trade offers or exposes for sale or hire;
(c) by way of trade exhibits in public; or
(d) imports into Singapore, otherwise than for private and domestic use,

any article which he knows, or ought reasonably to know, to be an infringing copy of the work shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding $10,000 for the article or for each article in respect of which the offence was committed or