Amendments to empower Copyright Tribunal

As a lawyer, I often inform my clients about the need to clear licenses with the various licensing societies whenever they use works belonging to other parties. This is especially familiar to those in the entertainment industry, for example, a singer who wants to re-record a version of a song written by someone else.

The same affects the technology industry--say, for instance, a MP3 site or Internet radio station. These rights are typically held by collection societies that are not-for-profit organizations empowered to collect the royalties from the exploitation of such rights. Where rights are held by commercial entities, these..... Read more »

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In remembrance: DRMs

Last week, I was at a WIPO-organized forum on copyright and related rights in Singapore.

Several persons spoke about digital rights management (or DRMs). DRMs are access control measure technologies used by copyright owners to control use of their rights, by controlling the usage of digital content and devices. Depending on which camp you are from, there are various views.

A content owner would say that DRMs are "enablers" because they enable copyright holders to offer more choices--for example, you can now buy a one-time only viewing DVD for $10 instead of multiple-viewing DVD if you only wanted to..... Read more »

Tags: DRM, WIPO, DMCA, copyright, law, DVD, prosthetics, access control, digital-rights management, copyright law

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Bryan Tan

Called to the Singapore and English Bars, Bryan Tan has practised in two of Singapore’s largest law firms and an international law firm. Bryan led many industry firsts including the first mass e-mail defamation case in the world, Singapore’s first publicised telecoms competition dispute, a pan-Asian co-branded travel portal, the first privately-funded cable landing project in Singapore and the world's first registrar-level domain name dispute. His areas of practice include information technology, telecommunications, biotechnology and bioinformatics, Chinese intellectual property, entertainment law and corporate work. He is also an author of Halsbury's Laws of Malaysia: E-Commerce. He also co-wrote the Singapore chapter of 'Digital Evidence' with Prof. Daniel Seng and is writing Halsbury's Laws of Singapore: E-Commerce.