COPYRIGHT ACT

 17(c)- control test and employee test

 2(o)- literary work
 S. 14- rights with original creator

PATENTS ACT

 S. 3(k)- computer programs not patentable

 S. 3(p)- aggregation of known properties of known components not patentable

IT ACT- legal recognition of electronic records

 S. 63- Copyright infringement (Syed Asifuddin v s/o AP)

 S. 43A- data security
 S.4- e-documents
 S.5- digital signatures
 S.11- attribution to originator
 S.12- acknowledgment
 S.13- time/place/dispatch

CONTRACT ACT

IPC

 S. 464- inclusion of digital signatures

 S. 29
 167
 172
 192
 463

INDIAN EVIDENCE ACT

 S. 65A and S.65B- Admissibility of electronic records

 S.63- secondary evidence- computer output
 73A- Verification of digital signatures
 85A & B- presumption wrt digital signatures

DIGITAL SIGNATURES (INTL)

 E-Sign Act (USA)

 Uniform Electronic Transactions Act (USA)
 English Electronic Communications Act (S. 7(1))

TRIPS AGREEMENT

 Art. 10- literary work

 Art. 27- patents: all products and processes which are new, inventive and industrial
application

MOD 2: SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT AGREEMENT

 Exegesis infotech v medimanage insurance broking

 Zee enterprises v gajendra singh
 20: compuserve inc v Patterson
 Inset Systems inc v instruction set inc
 Maritz inc v cyber gold
 Bensusan Restaurant Corp v King
 21: Licra v Yahoo
 25: Joseph gutnick v Dow Jones
 30: Entores ltd v miles far east corpn