When law and technology collide
01 March 2010
Cheah Yew Kuin considers the copyright liability of online digital video recording services in Singapore and the US
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| New models of distributing songs, TV programmes and films have presented a challenge to copyright owners everywhere in the world. But few courts have ruled on some of the key issues involved in online digital recording of TV programmes and films. In a recent Singapore High Court action, MediaCorp, Singapore’s biggest terrestrial broadcaster of free-to-air television programming, won its litigation against Record TV, a company operating a website offering online recording of MediaCorp’s free-to-air TV programmes. The decision raised the vital question of who makes the infringing copy. The Singapore High Court and the US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit have given similar answers. |
Despite the proliferation of online copyright infringement, there has been very little case law in Commonwealth jurisdictions on the implications of the new technologies available for disseminating content over the internet and its implications for traditional copyright laws.
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