Wednesday 23 April 2014

15.1.1 (SCOPE OF THE ACT)

Introduction. The law relating to copyright is contained in the Copyright Act,1957.It extends to the whole of India and came into force on January 21,1958. The Act has been amended in 1983, 1984,1992 and 1994 primarily to bring the Indian law in conformity with the international conventions in general and Bern Convention and the Universal Copyright Convention in particular. The objective of the 1957 Act was to amend and consolidate the law relating to copyright as was available that time.

Section 2 gives the interpretation of certain expressions as used in the Act. Sections 9-11 deal with Copyright Office and Copyright Board. These are summarised below:

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