Certainty and uncertainty of cross-border copyright infringement litigation in Singapore
Publication Type
Book Chapter
Publication Date
7-2019
Abstract
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.
Keywords
Intellectual property, Property, Jurisdiction, Singapore, Conflict of laws, Private international law
Discipline
Dispute Resolution and Arbitration | Litigation
Research Areas
Dispute Resolution
Publication
Annotated leading copyright cases in major Asian jurisdictions
Editor
Liu Kung-Chung
First Page
519
Last Page
532
ISBN
9789629373801
Publisher
City University Press
City or Country
Hong Kong SAR
Citation
YEO, Tiong Min.
Certainty and uncertainty of cross-border copyright infringement litigation in Singapore. (2019). Annotated leading copyright cases in major Asian jurisdictions. 519-532.
Available at: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sol_research/2940
Copyright Owner and License
City University of Hong Kong