Ensure that application is enclosed with prescribed fee by postal order or Demand Draft in favor of ‘Registrar of Copyrights’ payable at New Delhi.

The application (Form IV) including the Statement of Particulars (SoP) and the Statement of Further Particulars (SoFP) should be signed by the applicant only or the advocate in whose favor a Vakalatnama or Power of Attorney has been executed. The Power of Attorney signed by the party and accepted by the advocate should also be enclosed.

Under Rule 16 of the Copyright Rules, 1958, the applicant required to send by pre paid registered post copies of Form IV, SoP & SoFP to every person who claims or has any interest in the subject matter of the copyright or disputes the rights of applicant to it.

Application should contain Form IV, SoP & SoFP and they should be sent in triplicate.

Name, address & nationality of the Applicant should completely filled up in Col.2 of the SoP.

Please clarify in Col.3 of the SoP whether applicant is author/publisher/owner/assignee.

In Col.4 of the SoP please indicate appropriate Class and description of the work.

In Col.5 of the SoP please mention ‘Title of the work’ as it appears in the published form..

In Col.6 of the SoP please indicate Language of the work.

In Col.7 of the SoP please indicate Name, address & Nationality of the Author and if the author is deceased, the date of decease

In Col.8 of the SoP please mention whether the work is published or unpublished.

Please indicate Year and Country of first publication (Name, address and nationality of the publisher) in Col.9 of the SoP.

Please also mention years and countries of subsequent publications if any, and name, addresses and nationalities of the publishers in Col.10 of the SoP.

In Col.11 of the SoP please indicate names, address and nationalities of the owners of various rights comprising the copyright in the work and the extent of rights held by each, together with the particulars of assignments and license, if any. In case applicant himself intends to hold all rights in the work, his particulars are given against Col.2 must be mentioned. In case the applicant is a partnership firm, the names of all the partners and their shares in the copyright may be indicated.

Please indicate in Col.12 of the SoP names, addresses and nationalities of other persons if any, to whom author intends to authorise other persons to assign or license the rights comprising the copyrights.

Please include in Col. 13 of the SoP if the work is ‘Artistic’ the location of the original work, including name and address and nationality of the person in possession of the work, (in case of an architectural work, the year of completion of the work should also be shown).

As per Col.13A, the application should include a certification from the Registrar of Trade Marks in terms of the proviso to Sub-Section (i) of Section 45 of the Copyright Act, 1957, if the work is an Artistic work which is used or is capable of being used in relation to any goods.

Please enclose 5 identical copies of artistic work (identical in size/colour/design) which should be identical with the work attached with Search Certificate (TN-60).

Please intimate the Name, address & Nationality of the Author whose photograph appears on the work. If that person is other than the applicant, a No Objection Certificate, in original may be obtained from the person or from his legal heir (s) if the person is deceased or from the guardian if the applicant is minor and the same may be enclosed with the application.

The itself cannot be the author of a work. Therefore, details of the person(s) who has/have actually created the work as per section 2 (d) of the Copyright Act, 1957 may be furnished.

As per Col. 7 of the SoP submitted by you, the author of the work is other than the applicant, please enclose a No Objection Certificate original from the original author(s) clearly indicating that he/she has no objection if the copyright in the work is registered in the name of the applicant(s) and also clarify whether the author is partner/ proprietor/ employee of the applicant.

As provided in the Section 15 of the Copyright Act, 1957, please indicate if your work is already registered or capable of being registered under the Designs Act, 2000. If not, please file an affidavit to the effect that the work is not registered/ plied for registration under the Designs Act.

If the work is published by a person other than the applicant, a No Objection Certificate in original may be obtained from the person/firm and enclose with application.

Please enclose three (3) copies of published work and two (2) copies of unpublished work in case of all classes of work along with your application.

Please submit Power of Attorney (POA) if advocate is filling on behalf of the applicant.