Copyright Act 2021 — Section 244 (Computational Data Analysis Exception)

Section 244 of the Copyright Act 2021, "Computational Data Analysis," provides an explicit safe harbour for AI training data use: lawfully accessed content (whether or not copyrighted) may be used for AI model training, text and data mining, and other "computational analysis" purposes without constituting copyright infringement. Together with Article 30-4 of Japan's Copyright Act, this is the world's most permissive copyright stance on AI training — the US is still navigating fair use case law, while the EU relies on the opt-out mechanism in its Text and Data Mining Exception. Combined with IPOS's "When Code Creates" report (2024) and the "permissive training + strict output" philosophy (the OCHA + Elections Bill + Criminal Law Bill + Online Safety Bill quartet), Singapore offers AI companies **one of the clearest legal perimeters in the world** — a key part of the backdrop that lets EDB attract institutions like OpenAI, Anthropic, and DeepMind.