s 258 Deemed copyright licences when receiving or transmitting broadcasts or cable programmes
258.—(1) A person is deemed to have the licence of the copyright owner of a film to —(a) cause the visual images of the film to be seen in public or any sounds of the film to be heard in public (or both) by receiving a television broadcast or cable programme; and (b) cause the film to be included in a programme in a cable programme service by receiving and immediately re‑transmitting a Singapore broadcast. (2) A person is deemed to have the licence of the copyright owner of a sound recording to —(a) cause the recording to be heard in public by receiving a broadcast or cable programme; and (b) cause the recording to be included in a programme in a cable programme service by receiving and immediately re‑transmitting a Singapore broadcast. (3) A person is deemed to have the licence of the copyright owner of an authorial work (or of an adaptation of the work) to cause the work (or the adaptation) to be included in a programme in a cable programme service by receiving and immediately re‑transmitting a Singapore broadcast. (4) To avoid doubt, subsections (1)(b), (2)(b) and (3) do not extend to making the film, recording, work or adaptation available on a network. (5) If the broadcast or cable programme mentioned in subsection (1), (2) or (3) is not made by or with the licence of the relevant copyright owner —(a) this does not prevent any of those provisions from applying; but (b) the acts that are licensed by those provisions must be taken into account in assessing damages for any infringement of the copyright by the maker of the broadcast or programme. (6) In this section, “Singapore broadcast” means a broadcast made from a place in Singapore by the holder of a broadcasting licence.