Law of copyright with amendments and case studies showing infringement

Type :

Indian project

Pages :

23 pages

Format :

.doc

Published date :

03/05/2009

Category :

Law & contracts

Sub category :

Other law subjects

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Summary :

Copyright Act 1957.
Indian copyright law.
1. What copyright protects?
2. Works in which copyrights subsists.
3. Illustrations of copyrights in literary work.
4. Copyright of dramatic works.
5. Copyrights of musical works.
6. Copyrights of artistic works.
7. Copyrights in sound recording.
8. Copyrights of cinematograph film.
9. Author and ownership of copyright.
The case of Sahara Entertainment Television vs author Barbara Taylor Bradford.
Anu Malik v/s Bengali rock band 'Miles'.
Bappi Lahiri vs Dr Dre.
Remedies against infringement of copyright.
Regulatory authority.
1. Register of copyright.
2. Copyright board.
3. Appeals against orders of registrar of copyrights and copyright board.
4. The Copyright (amendment) Act 1983.
5. Summary of amendments affected.
6. Copyright (amendment) Act 1984.
7. Copyright (amendment) Act 1994.
Conclusion.
Bibliography.

Abstract

The first copyright act in India was passed in 1914. It was a replica of the English copyright act of 1911. The act, presently in use was legislated in the year 1957 and is known as copyright act of 1957 and was amended with the copyright act of 1999.It adopted many principles and provision contained in the U.K. act of 1956.

It protects the skill and labor employed by the author in production of his work. It is protection in form and not in idea i.e. it is based upon the right of an author, artist or composer to prevent another person from copying his original work, whether it is a book, tune or a picture which he created himself.

E.g.: A person may have a brilliant idea for a story or for a picture, but if he communicates that idea to an artistic or play writer then the production which is the result of the communication of the idea, is the copyright of the person who has clothed the idea in a form (whether by means of picture or play) and the owner of the idea has no rights in that product since there is no copyright on idea or information, it is no infringement of copyright to adopt the ideas of another or to publish information derived from another provided there is no copying of the language in which those ideas have or that information has been previously embodied.