Intellectual property rights: copyright act

1. Made by-Prutam Chetri
B. Pharma
Itm University

2.  Copyright is a bundle of rights given by the law to the creators of literary,
dramatic, musical and artistic works and the producers of cinematograph films
and sound recordings.
 The rights provided under Copyright law include
the rights of reproduction of the work
communication of the work to the public
adaptation of the work and translation of the work.
 The scope and duration of protection provided under copyright law varies with
the nature of the protected work.

3.  In India , earliest statutory law on copyright was copyright act 1847 ,which was
enacted during the East India company’s regime
 In 1914 the Indian Copyright act was enacted
 Later ,after independence it was replaced by the Copyright act 1957
 The act was applicable from 21 January 1958
 It has been amended 6 times since 1957 i.e. 1983,1984,1991, 1994,1999 & 2012.

4. LITERARY WORKS
MUSICAL COMPOSITION
DRAMATIC ACTIVITIES
CHOREOGRAPHICAL WORKS
GRAPHICAL & SCLUPTURAL ACTIVITIES
ADDITIONAL ACTIVITIES

5.  Literary, Dramatic, musical & artistic works can be protected for life time of
author + 60 years from the beginning of the calendar year next following the year
in which the author dies.
 Other works as cinematograph films, sound records, photographs are protected till
60 years from the beginning of the calendar years next following the year in
which the work is first published

6.  Ideas
 Facts
 Recipes
 Works lacking originality
 Names, tittle or short phases

9.  A suit on copyright violation against Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) was filed on
May 14th, 2008 by IPRS.
 The allegation was about playing 14 popular Hindi film songs like "Om Shanti
Om" during IPL matches at Eden Gardens without permission.
 Musicians like AR Rahman, Anu Malik, Gulzar, Bappi Lahiri, Ravinder Jain,
Jatin Pandit (of duo Jatin-Lalit), Shravan Rathod (of duo Nadeem-Shravan), and
IIayaraaja are members of IPRS

10.  SCHOLARS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD v/s RAMESWARI
PHOTOCOPY SERVICES

11.  A legal battle began in august 2012, when publisher like
Oxford University Press
Cambridge University Press
Taylor & Francis Group
filled a case against Rameswari Photocopy Services ,a licensed vendor in DU’s
north campus
 The photocopy shop claimed that they photocopied the books for students to save
them some cost.

12.  The Delhi High Court dismissed the copyright infringement petition by
international publishers against the sale of photocopied books & pages
 The court stated that “to issue copies of the work to the public cannot be
interpreted as making copies of the work”
 Justice Rajiv Sahai concluded that “Copyright is intended to increase & not to
impede the harvest of knowledge”