Certainty and uncertainty of cross-border copyright infringement litigation in Singapore

• Main Author: YEO, Tiong Min
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2019
• Subjects: Intellectual property; Property; Jurisdiction; Singapore; Conflict of laws; Private international law; Dispute Resolution and Arbitration; Litigation
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sol_research/2940; https://search.library.smu.edu.sg/discovery/fulldisplay?docid=alma99328912602601&context=L&vid=65SMU_INST:SMU_NUI&lang=en&search_scope=Everything&adaptor=Local%20Search%20Engine&tab=Everything&query=any,contains,Annotated%20leading%20copyright%20cases%20in%20major%20Asian%20jurisdictions&offset=0
• Institution: Singapore Management University

There is little cross-border copyright litigation in Singapore. This is most likely due to the territorial nature of copyright law and the relative diminutiveness of the Singapore market. Infringements in Singapore typically involve only Singapore copyright law, and foreign infringements raise potentially difficult jurisdictional and choice of law issues that have yet to be resolved. The enactment of the Choice of Court Agreements Act giving force of law to the Hague Convention on Choice of Court Agreements 2005 (“Hague Convention or the Convention”) with effect from 1 October 2016, has — where it applies — resolved some of these issues.