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Rh Causing certain works or performances to be performed, seen or heard in public for private profit

450.—(1) A person commits an offence if—
 * (a) the person does any of the following acts:
 * (i) causes a literary, dramatic or musical work to be performed in public;
 * (ii) causes the visual images of a film to be seen in public or any sounds of the film to be heard in public (or both);
 * (b) the act is done—
 * (i) other than by the reception of a television broadcast or cable programme;
 * (ii) for the person’s private profit; and
 * (iii) at any time when copyright subsists in the work; and
 * (c) the person knows or ought reasonably to know that the act infringes the copyright in the work.

(2) A person commits an offence if—
 * (a) the person does any of the following acts:
 * (i) causes a protected performance to be seen or heard live in public (or both);
 * (ii) causes a recording of a protected performance to be heard in public;
 * (b) the act is done for the person’s private profit; and
 * (c) the person knows or ought reasonably to know that the act is an infringing use of the performance.

Advertisement for supply of infringing copies of works

451.—(1) Subject to subsection (2), a person commits an offence if—
 * (a) the person publishes, or causes to be published, an advertisement in Singapore; and