Legal services and matters related to the copyright is
governed by Copyright Act, 1957 in India. The Act has been amended several
times since its instigation in 1957 to keep up with the changing scenarios. As
per this Act, a copyright grants author's lifetime coverage plus 60 years 8
PP-IPRL&P after death. Copyright and related rights on cultural goods,
products and services, arise from individual or collective creativity. All
original intellectual creations expressed in a reproducible form will be
connected as "works eligible for copyright protections". Copyright
laws distinguish between different classes of works such as literary, artistic,
musical works and sound recordings and cinematograph films. The work is protected
irrespective of the quality thereof and also when it may have very little in
common with accepted forms of literature or art.
A vital field which gets copyright
protection is the computer industry. The Copyright Act, 1957, was amended in
1984 and computer programming was included with the definition of
"literary work.' The new definition of "computer programme"
introduced in 1994, means a set of instructions expressed in works, codes or in
any other form, including a machine readable medium, capable of causing a
computer to perform a particular task or achieve a particular result.
Copyright protection also includes novel
rights which involve the right to claim authorship of a work, and the right to
oppose changes to it that could harm the creator's reputation. The creator or
the owner of the copyright in a work, can enforce his right administratively
and in the courts by inspection of premises for evidence of production or
possession of illegally made "pirated" goods related to protected works.
The owner may obtain court orders to stop such activities, as well as seek
damages for loss of financial rewards and recognition.
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