Provisions of Copyright Act as Applied to a Design :

A creator of a design shall keep in mind the following provisions of the Copyright Act, 1957:

(a) Copyright shall not subsist under the Copyright Act in any design which is registered under the Designs Act.

(b) Copyright in any design, which is capable is being registered but which has not been so registered shall cease as soon as any article to which the design has been applied has been reproduced more than fifty times by an industrial process, by the owner of the copyright, or with his license, by any other person. [Section 15 of The Copyright Act, 1957]