Singapore fair use
Posted on:: September 27th, 2004
I’m giving a couple of talks in Singapore in December and one of my kind hosts has sent me a form on which I’m to list every copyrighted and non-copyrighted source I use in the handouts, along with this explanation of what constitutes fair use in Singapore.
I’d say that this is what we have to worry about our copyright law doing to the free expression of ideas, but I’m afraid you’re going to tell me that this is in fact where our copyright law already is.
Sigh.
Categories: Uncategorized dw
I am surprise…conference organizors dont go to this extend. (Unless you are speaking at a university, then the typically ‘kaisu’ attitude kicks on)
You coming Singapore? Lets try to catch up. :-)
ps: ‘kaisu’ is a local term that means ‘scared to lose’. we used it to refer to people who overreacted due to fear.
Looks like your host is from Univ. I know for a fact that several book publishing companies had created trouble for the Univ (I better not specify which one) due to what they term copyright issues like lecturers photocopying pages of books and distributing them to the students etc.
After that a large numbers of ‘checks’ have been put in place. You have to sign a form if you are photocopying more that some x pages from any book etc. I guess what you have experienced is a followup of this policy.
The form came through a company that puts on seminars. They may have a university affiliation of which I am unaware. The policy seems to require filling out the forms not as an exception – if you are photocopying more than n pages – but as the rule. And then, as it emphasizes, you must keep the records for four years. Ack.