Duty LXD-0171
Crawls the web, in Singapore
Computer Misuse Act, Unauthorised Access to Computer Materialsince 2 lines
Computer Misuse Act 1993 (Cap. 50A), s. 3 (Unauthorised Access to Computer Material) · Read the law's page
- Do not cause a computer to perform any function for the purpose of securing access to a program or data without authority, meaning without being entitled to control that access and without the consent of a person who is so entitled.
- Reading a public, unauthenticated page without defeating any access control has not itself been held to violate this section.
Copyright Act, Computational Data Analysis Exception and Non-Override Rulesince 2 lines
Copyright Act 2021, ss. 243-244 and s. 187 (Computational Data Analysis Exception) · Read the law's page
- An app may copy a work or a recording of a protected performance for computational data analysis, including to train a model, only if it has lawful access to the material (not obtained by circumventing a paywall or breaching a database's terms of use), does not use the copy for any other purpose, and does not supply the copy to any other person except to verify the results or for collaborative research or study relating to that purpose.
- A contract term purporting to exclude or restrict this computational data analysis exception is void and does not bind the app.