Law Ministry (MinLaw) together with Intellectual Property Office of Singapore (IPOS) produced 70-page proposed changes in Singapore Copyright Review Report.

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15 proposals

• Proposal 1: Whether to Establish a Voluntary Copyright Registration System
• Proposal 2: Granting Creators the Default Ownership of Certain Commissioned Works
• Proposal 3: Setting an Expiry Date for the Protection of Unpublished Works
• Proposal 4: Attributing Creators Whenever their Works are Used
• Proposal 5: Providing Information to Help the Creator-Publisher/Producer Relationship
• Proposal 6: Strengthening the General “Fair Use” Exception
• Proposal 7: Whether and How to Enable the Use of Orphan Works
• Proposal 8: Facilitating Uses of Works for Text and Data Mining
• Proposal 9: Facilitating Educational Uses by Non-Profit Schools
• Proposal 10: Facilitating the Work of Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums
• Proposal 11: Adjusting Existing Provisions for Print-Disabled Users
• Proposal 12: Improving Access to Knowledge in Non-Patent Literature
• Proposal 13: Increasing the Availability of Materials on Official Government Registers
• Proposal 14: Protecting Certain Exceptions From Being Restricted by Contracts
• Proposal 15: How to Enhance the Collective Rights Management Landscape in Singapore

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The main aim is to protect the creators and give them due recognition. Second is to allow reasonable access to the public to copyrighted resources for the purposes of public interest and research that relies on text and content analysis.

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Reference

• Singapore Copyright Review Report (accessed 20 Jan 2019)