Category: Corporate & Commercial
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Moral Rights: The Right to Destroy Artwork
It was reported in the Singapore press that several pieces of art work had been missing after the building owners renovated their premises. Some, if not all, might have been destroyed in the course of renovation. Is there anything that the artists can do to prevent this or at least salvage their art work for…
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Indonesian Laws On the Internet
The Indonesian legal system is complex, and some Indonesian government departments are only just beginning to make available on their websites key legislation in their respective fields of interest.
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Releases And Photographs
The requirement for releases is an area of law that is controversial and unsettling among the legal and photography professionals. The difficulty is that it is not always easy to draw the fine line between what is newsworthy and what is not.
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Artist Dealership Contracts
Often young unestablished artists are unable to secure deals or representation with established galleries. So they have to turn to non-gallery-owning dealers for agency deals. The likely problem areas when negotiating an appropriate contract in such situations are examined in this article.
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Online Licensing Issues
This article focuses on legal issues arising in licensing agreements between service providers that aggregate information from various sources (both from the Internet and otherwise) and create products based on the results of such aggregation for commercial distribution to clients.
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Singapore’s Spam Control Bill
To combat the problem of spam, the Infocomm Development Authority and the Attorney-General’s Chambers of Singapore jointly initiated a public consultation on 25th May 2004, resulting in the proposed Spam Control Bill (the “Bill”). The Bill (amended as a reulst of feedback) was presented for its first reading in Parliament on the 27th February 2007,…
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Charitable Organisations: Controlling Conflict of Interests
In the wake of the NKF saga, the Government has accepted the recommendations of the Inter-Ministry Committee (IMC) on the regulation of Charities and Institutions of a Public Character. The National Council of Social Services, which is also the governing body for charitable organisations has issued a Code of Governance (“the Code”) which was used…
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Moral Rights And the Conservation of Artistic Works
Moral Rights Legislation Until 1998, Singapore law gave little or no protection to artists against abuses to their reputation such as public denial of their authorship and derogatory physical treatment of their works no longer in their possession, control or ownership. Protection for artists against such non-economic abuses was given when Singapore acceded to the…
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Internet Gambling After the US Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act 2006
On 30 September 2006 the US Congress passed the Safe Port Act. Tagged on to this Act is Title VIII: The Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act of 2006 (UIGE Act). The UIGE Act makes it a criminal offence for the betting and gaming industry to accept financial transactions to facilitate “unlawful Internet gambling” and requires…
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Money Laundering And The Diamond Jeweller
An article on FATF Recommendations and the Jewellery Trade in Singapore.
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Do’s And Don’ts Of A China Investment
Everyone who is anyone is going into China. Opportunities are plentiful. However, pitfalls are just as plentiful, if not more. Although some of the issues raised in this article appear basic, if they are not properly addressed could cost you time, money and more importantly, lose real opportunities. What follows are three examples of common…
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Law As Art?
An intriguing article about using law as an integral element in artworks.