COPYRIGHTS
What it is?
Benefits
Who may apply?
Duration
What it is?
Copyright means the exclusive right to do or to authorize the doing of any of the following acts:
- To reproduce the work in any manner, whatsoever
- To issue copies of the work to the public
- To perform the work in public
- To make any cinematograph film or sound recording
- To make a translation of the work
- To make any adaptation of the work
- To sell or to give on commercial rental or offer for sale or for commercial rental
- To communicate the work to the public
Copyright exists in the following works:
- Literary work including dramatic or musical work.
- Computer programmes, tables and compilations including computer data bases.
- Artistic work.
- Cinematograph film.
- Sound recording.
Benefits
- Registration to be prima facie evidence of validity of the proprietorship.
- Exclusive right to reproduce, adapt, translate, sell, offer for sale, commercial rent the work in relation to which Copyright is held.
- The right to obtain relief in respect of infringement of Copyright in the manner provided in the Copyright Act, 1957.
Who may apply?
- Application for registration of the Copyright can be applied for by the author/ artist/ programmer etc of the work, as the case may be.
- Application for registration of the Copyright can be applied for by the assignee of the work, along with a NO OBJECTION LETTER from the author/ artist/ programmer etc, as the case may be.
- In case a work is produced by an individual during the course of his employment then the owner of the work is the employer. Therefore, the employer has the right to file application for registration, along with the NO OBJECTION LETTER from the author/ artist/ programmer etc, as the case may be.
Duration
Copyright shall subsist in any literary, dramatic, musical, or artistic work (other than a photograph) published within the lifetime of the author until (sixty years) from the beginning of the calendar year next following the year in which the author dies.
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