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Copyright
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Copyright is
a long established form of intellectual property right. Modern Copyright laws
protect literary and dramatic works, musical works, artistic works including
maps and technical drawings, etc., photographs and audiovisual works
(cinematograph films, video etc.). Computer programmers are also increasingly
protected as literary works, e.g. in India In many countries, notably the
Commonwealth countries including India and other countries with common-law
legal traditions, copyright protection is extended to sound recordings. The
rights recognized by Copyright include the right to copy or otherwise reproduce
a work; the right to perform it; the right to make a film or sound recording of
the work; the right to communicate it to the public by broadcasting it or other
means; the right to translate it and the right to make adaptations of it. There
are also “moral rights” of the author to claim authorship of his work and to
seek relief against the distortion or mutilation of it, even if he has parted
with his economic rights in the work. In India (and some other countries) the
term ‘Copyright’ is restricted to economic rights, but moral rights are also
separately protected, under section 57 of our Copyright Act, as author’s
special rights.
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Copyright Act, 1957
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The
Copyright Act in India was enacted in the year 1957. It has been amended five
times since then, once each in the years 1982, 1984, 1992, 1994 and 1999.
Though the amendment in the year 1994 was quite comprehensive, only minor
changes were introduced through the amendment made in the year 1999 to bring
the Act in conformity with the TRIPS Agreement
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In order to
keep pace with the developments at national and international level,
particularly with the rapid advance of technology, it has become necessary to
consider amendments to the Act once again. The Government of India has received
several representations from various individuals, stakeholders, experts and
industries suggesting some further amendments in the Copyright Act, to make it
more effective.
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To make the
Copyright Act, 1957 more useful, comprehensive and effective we invite
views/suggestions from interested members of the public, industries,
stakeholders and any other interest person. Our attempt would be to give as
much consideration to the comments as possible so as to reflect the concerns of
all the stakeholders.
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To give your
comment, we request you to create a login identity for yourself and use the
feedback form given to provide your inputs. You may also send your comments by
post to the address given below.
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You
would appreciate that this feedback system can be misused by lobbyists and
parties interested in swelling the numbers of responses echoing their concerns.
To prevent such misuse we have made some fields in the feedback form mandatory. |
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Address to which
the comments can be sent: |
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Director
and Registrar of Copyrights
Department of Secondary and Higher Education
Ministry of Human Resource Development
Government of India
Copyright Office
B2/W3 Curzon Road Barracks
Kasturba Gandhi
Marg
New Delhi - 110 001
India
Telefax: +91(11) 23386561
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of the amendments already proposed at the following link may be seen to gain an
idea of the concerns expressed by some stakeholders.
Amendments
Proposed
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