Copyright Registration

Copyright Registration

The Copyright Act, 1957 has been enacted to amend and consolidate the law relating to copyrights in India. The object of the law is to facilitate, encourage and motivate artists, composers, software programmers, etc. to create original works by a system of granting exclusive right for a limited period to re-produce the work for the benefit or consumption of the public. 

       After the expiry of the specified period the work will belong to the public domain and one may reproduce them without permission. Thus the producer of an original work is enabled to prevent others from creating or reproducing his work and in this sense, the author gets the monopoly right in his favor. With the growth of science and technology as well as with the growth in inventive and creative flourish in various aspects of literary, artistic, musical and other arts, the need for copyright protection has become all the more important.

Copyright Registration Tirupur

Copyright Registration Tirupur

             Copyright Registration Tirupur is the right of literary property as recognized and sanctioned by positive law. It is an intangible, incorporeal right granted by statute to the author or originator of certain literary or artistic productions, whereby he is invested, for a specified period, with the sole and exclusive privilege of multiplying copies of the same and publishing and selling them.

International copyright is the right of a subject of one country for protection against the republication in another country of a work which he originally published in his own country .

Copyright Registration

Copyright Registration

Copyright comes into existence as soon as a work is created and no formality is required to be completed for acquiring copyright. However, facilities exist for having the work registered in the Register of Copyrights maintained in the Copyright Office of the Department of Education. The entries made in the Register of Copyrights serve as prima-facie evidence in the court of law.

Procedure for Registration

Chapter VI of the Copyright Rules, 1956, as amended, sets out the procedure for the registration of a work. The procedure for registration is as follows: 

·         Application for registration is to be made on Form IV ( Including Statement of Particulars and Statement of Further Particulars) as prescribed in the first schedule to the Rules

·         Separate applications should be made for registration of each work

·         Each application should be accompanied by the requisite fee prescribed in the second schedule to the Rules