Author’s Rights in the Digital Age: A Comprehensive Analysis under the Copyright Act, 1957
Copyright law is not merely a technical branch of statutory interpretation; it is the architecture that protects imagination. In India, the Copyright Act, 1957, together with the Copyright Rules, 2013..
Copyright Assignment and Licensing in India: Structuring Creative Ownership with Legal Precision
Copyright law does not merely protect creativity; it regulates how creativity travels. A poem may begin in the solitude of a writer’s desk, a musical composition in the silence of a studio…
Copyright Infringement and Enforcement in India
Copyright law does not only protect creativity, but it also controls how creative work is shared and used. Like a poem may start with a writer sitting alone, a song may begin in a music studio or a software program may be written on a laptop. But after creation, the work is usually..
Originality as the Foundation of Copyright Protection in India
Copyright protection does not extend to every work that a person produces. It extends only to works that are original. This single requirement – originality – is the gateway through which all claims to copyright protection must pass…
Digital Copyright in the Internet Age: Online Infringement, Intermediary Liability and Safe Harbours
The internet has fundamentally altered the economics and architecture of creative expression. Content that once required physical manufacture, distribution….
Fair Dealing under Section 52 of the Copyright Act, 1957 – A Comprehensive Analysis
Copyright law is, at its core, a bargain. Society grants creators a bundle of exclusive rights over their works for a limited period, in exchange for the enrichment that creative expression brings to..
Moral Rights and Authors’ Special Rights under Section 57 of the Copyright Act, 1957
Copyright law operates on two distinct but interconnected axes. The first is economic – the bundle of exclusive rights that allows a creator to control the reproduction, distribution…
Copyright in Cinematograph Films – Ownership, Rights and Exploitation
Few creative works demand as much capital, coordinate as many individual contributions, or generate as much commercial activity as a cinematograph film.A feature film involves the labour of…
Copyright in Music – Composers, Lyricists and Performers
Music is among the oldest and most universal forms of human expression and it is also among the most legally complex categories of creative work that copyright law is called upon to protect A single commercially released..
Copyright in Computer Programs under Indian Law
The protection of computer programs under intellectual property law is one of the most consequential and contested questions in the history of modern legal systems. Software drives virtually every sector of the contemporary economy…
Copyright Societies in India : The Collective Licensing Framework, IPRS, PPL and the Statutory Architecture of Sections 33 to 36A
The administration of copyright in creative industries has never been a matter that individual rights holders can manage alone. A composer whose work is performed..
Performer’s right and Broadcast reproduction right under The Copyright Act, 1957
Chapter VIII of The Copyright Act, 1957 i.e. rights of broadcasting organisation and of performers in section 37 deals with Broadcast reproduction right and in section 38 with Performer’s right The Copyright Act, 1957 is principally…
Copyright and Artificial Intelligence – Who Owns AI-Generated Works?
Few questions in contemporary intellectual property law have generated as much urgency, as much disagreement and as much genuine legal uncertainty as the question of who if anyone owns the copyright in a work generated by artificial intelligence…
Copyright in Databases and Compilations under Indian Law
The question of whether a collection of information facts, data, references, records or other pre-existing material assembled into an organised whole deserves intellectual property protection is among the most contested and practically consequential in copyright law….
Copyright Duration – Rules for Different Categories of Works under Indian Law
Every grant of exclusive rights must, in a society that values both the reward of creative effort and the freedom of public access to culture and knowledge, have a defined limit. Copyright is no exception.The rights that the Copyright Act, 1957 confers upon authors..
Copyright Issues in Social Media and User-Generated Content
Social media has fundamentally transformed the relationship between copyright law and everyday human behaviour. Before the internet, the act of reproducing, distributing or communicating a copyrighted work to the public was largely confined to publishers, broadcasters and commercial enterprises with the infrastructure to do so at scale.
Publishing Agreements and Copyright in India
The relationship between an author and a publisher is among the oldest and most commercially consequential in the creative economy. It is a relationship built on a fundamental asymmetry: the author possesses the creative work and the copyright that protects it, while the publisher possesses the infrastructure, expertise, distribution networks and capital required to bring…
Copyright in Photographs and Artistic Works in India
Visual creativity occupies a distinctive place in the copyright landscape. A photograph taken in a fraction of a second, a painting developed over months, a sculpture carved from stone, an architectural elevation drafted with precision each of these represents an act of creative expression that the law recognises and protectsyet each raises questions..
Indian Copyright Law and the Berne Convention
International intellectual property law rests on a web of multilateral treaties and conventions that establish minimum standards of protection, define reciprocal obligations among member states and create the framework within which domestic copyright systems operate.