Abstract

In recent years, many governments have been proceeding amendments of copyright legislation more efficiently and effectively to respond to an increasingly digital landscape. Especially, The reforms have been prompted by the COVID-19 pandemic, which has further highlighted the need for a more flexible and adaptive framework to facilitate access to, and dissemination of, creative content in the digital environment, with the need for an urgent transition to widespread online and remote learning, and many public institutions having to move their services online. Especially, the Government of Singapore is seeking reform and modernization of the copyright regimes and a part of this effort, on 21 November 2021, the amended Singapore Copyright Act came into force on 21 November 2021, and replaced the existing Copyright Act (Cap. 63). The amended Act creates new exceptions for users, allowing copyright works to remain reasonably available for the benefit of society while introducing new rights and remedies to provide more recognition for creators to further incentivise the creation of works. It also and introduces a new regulatory framework for collective management organizations. In this study, we investigated and analyzed new copyright law reforms that reflect an increasingly digital landscape in Singapore, focusing on new exception for certain uses of public collection of galleries, libraries, archives, and museums prompted by COVID-19. In this regard, this study analyzes this study would like to present the direction of promoting Korean copyright policy in the future through a comparative study.

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