ECONOMIC RIGHTS OF COPYRIGHT

HOLDERS

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RIGHTS TYPES OF WORK

RIGHT TO REPRODUCE Available to all the works

RIGHT OF DISTRIBUTION Available to all the works, but not in a

similar manner

COMMUNICATION TO THE PUBLIC Available to all the works

RIGHT OF ADAPTATION Only available to literary, dramatic,

musical and artistic work

RIGHT OF TRANSLATION Only available to literary, dramatic and

musical work
RIGHT TO REPRODUCE
Fundamental
Available to all kinds of works
Case laws
 Francis Day & Hunter v Bron
[1963] Ch 587, (1963) 1A IPR 331, [1963] 2 All ER 16
 Star India Private Limited v Leo Burnett (India) Private
Limited 2003 (2) BomCR 655, 2003 (27) PTC 81 Bom
Concept of substantial and material copying
Storage in computer memory?
Right of distribution
Available to all kinds of works(but not in similar manner)
How can distribution take place?
 Sale
 Rental
 Free lending
 Free distribution(gift)
For literary, dramatic and artistic works, it is available in a
limited form
 Subject to the first sale or exhaustion doctrine
 Rental rights not available
For computer programs, films and sound recordings, it is
available in a higher form
 No exhaustion
 Rental rights are available

Case laws
 Penguin Books Limited v India Book Distributors and
others AIR 1985 Delhi 29, 26 (1984) DLT 316
Communication to public
Available to all kinds of works
Section 2(ff) of the Copyrights Act 1957,defines
communication to public
 Garware Plastics and Polyester Ltd, and others v M/s
Telelink and others AIR 1989 Bom 331, 1989 (2) BomCR
433, (1989) 91 BOMLR 139
Broadcasting, webcasting, simulcasting, video on demand
Uploading?
Case law
 Harms v martens club
 International Confederation of Societies of Authors and
Composers v. Aditya Pandey, 2016 SCC Online 967,
 Right of adaptation

 Available for only literary, dramatic, musical and artistic works

 Macmillan And Company Ltd V K and J Cooper (1924) 26
BOMLR 292
Right to translate
Available only for literary, dramatic and musical works
Translation – not defined in the Act
Apple computer Inc v computer Edge Pty Ltd [1983] 50
Austl. L.R. 581
The Bhaktivedanta Book Trust Versus Thomson Press
(India) Ltd & AnR
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