Copyright Board : Section 11 of the Act provides for the establishment of the Copyright Board and empowers the Central Government to constitute the same consisting of a Chairman and not […]

COPYRIGHT OFFICE : Section 9 of the Copyright Act requires for establishment of an office to be called the Copyright Office for the purpose of the Act. The Copyright Office is […]

Term of Copyright : Sections 22 to 29 deal with term of copyright in respect of published literary, dramatic, musical and artistic works; anonymous and pseudonymous; posthumous, photographs, cinematograph films, sound […]

AUTHORSHIP AND OWNERSHIP : Copyright protects the rights of authors, i.e., creators of intellectual property in the form of literary, musical, dramatic and artistic works and cinematograph films and sound recordings. […]

COPYRIGHT PERTAINING TO SOFTWARE : The definition of ”Literary wok” under section 2 (o) of the Copy right Act,1957 includes computer programmes, tables and compilations including computer “literary data bases. Computer […]

Works in Which Copyright Subsists : Section 13 of the Copyright Act provides that copyright shall subsist throughout India in certain classes of works which are enumerated in the section. Copyright […]

MEANING OF COPYRIGHT AND THE RIGHTS CONFERRED : Copyright is a right given by the law to creators of literary, dramatic, musical and artistic works and producers of cinematograph films and […]