COPYRIGHT ACT 1957

Salient Features of The Copyright Act 1957

GOOD AFTERNOON EVERYONE
I ROMA KHAN WILL BE EXPLAINING THE SLIDE SALIENT FEATURES OF
COPYRIGHT ACT 1957
AS EXPLAINED IN THE PREVIOUS SLIDE BY SAIMA IRAQI YOU ALL MUST HAVE
GOT AN IDEA WHAT A COPYRIGHT ACT IS
SO NOW I WILL BE SHARING SOME IMPORTANT FEATURES OF THE ACT.
 
1. Scope of rights conferred to author
Allocation of exclusive rights enabling the authors and other producers of
intellectual property to exclude non-paying users is the core aspect of
copyright law.
Under section 13 of the Copyright Act 1957,
original literary, dramatic, musical and artistic works and cinematograph films
and sound recordings ARE PROTECTED from unauthorised uses. Unlike the
case with patents, copyright protects the expressions and not the ideas.
A patent is a type of intellectual property that gives its owner the legal right to
exclude others from making, using, or selling an invention for a limited period of
years, in exchange for publishing an enabling public disclosure of the invention
2. Provisions to determine first ownership
According to Section 17 of the Copyrights Act 1957, the first owner of the
copyright is the author of the work itself. This rule has some exceptions among
which one is, the case in which, the employer becomes the owner of the
copyright in circumstances where the employee creates a work in the scope of
her/his employment. The copyright in a work done by an employee on his own
time and not in the course of his employment belongs to him.
3. Civil and criminal remedies
The civil remedies for copyright infringement are covered under Section 55 of
the Copyright Act of 1957. These civil remedies include damages, injunctions,
interpretation of accounts, destruction and delivery of infringed copies
and damages for conversion.
The criminal remedies, for infringement of copyright, are provided under
Section 63 of the Copyright Act 1957. These criminal remedies include
imprisonment, fines, search and seizure of infringing goods, etc. The
imprisonment can range up to 3 years but can not be less than 6 months and
the fine ranges from 50,000 to 2,00,000 rupees.
4. Creation of copyright office and copyright board
Provisions for setting up a copyright office, which is under the control of the
Registrar of the copyrights who shall act under the superintendence and
direction of the Central Government.There shall be a seal for the
Copyright Office for the registration of books and other ‘works’ of art.
while a copyright board or now termed as the “Appellate Board” which shall
consist of a Chairman and not less than two nor more than eight other
members. It is a quasi-judicial body constituted by the Central Government. it
help in dealing with copyright-related disputes are also given in the Copyright
Act, 1957.
Section 9 of the Copyright Act, 1957 provides for the inception of copyright
office. Section 11 of the Copyright Act, 1957 provides for the inception of the
Copyright Board.
5. Copyright license:
A public license or public copyright licenses is a license by which a copyright
holder as licensor can grant additional copyright permissions to any and all
persons in the general public as licensees.[1] By applying a public license to a
work, provided that the licensees obey the terms and conditions of the license,
copyright holders give permission for others to copy or change their work in
ways that would otherwise infringe copyright law.
these would be some improtant features of the copyright act 1957
now we shall move on to the materials protected under this act which will be
explained by aagam jain
thank you