REGISTRATION OF COPYRICHT

Sections 44 to 50 deal with the registration of copyright. Section 44 provides for a Register of copyright to be kept in the copyright office. The names or titles of the works, the names and addresses of authors, publishers and owners of copyright and certain other prescribed particulars are entered in the Register. Section 45 provides that entries in the Register of copyrights are made when the author or publisher of, or owner of or other Person interested in the copyright of or other person interested in the copyright in, any work makes an application to the Registrar of Copyright. Section 46 provides that there shall be also kept at the copyright office such indexes of the register of copyright, as may be prescribed. Section 47 provides that the register of copyright and indexes thereof are, at all reasonable times, to remain open to inspect on. Any person shall be entitled to take copies of, or make extracts form, such register or indexes on payment of a prescribed fee.

  Section 48 provides that the Register of copyright is a prima facie evidence of the particulars entered  therein. Section 49 empowers the Registrar of  Copyrights to amend or alter the Register by (a) correcting any error in any name, address or particulars; or (b) correcting any other error which may have arisen therein by accidental slip or omission. Section 50 empowers the Copyright-Board to order the rectification of the Register on an application of the Registrar or of any person aggrieved, by (i) making an entry wrongly omitted to be made in the Register, or (ii) the expunging of an entry wrongly, made in, or remaining on, the register; or (iii) correcting any error or defect in the Register.
  

Section 50 A provides that every entry made in the Register or the particulars  of

any work entered, the correction or rectification shall be published by the Registrar in the Official Gazette.