The Copyright Act In India
March 6, 2008 by Arun Pal Singh · Leave a Comment
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Intellectual Property Rights (IPRs), is the responsibility of the Union of Human Resource Development, Department of Secondary Higher Education. The copyright Office was established in January 1958 to register copyright of works under different categories.
As per section 33 of the copyright act, the central government also registers copyright societies for doing copyright business.
The Indian copyright act, 1957 was comprehensively amended in 1994 taking into account the technological developments. The amended act was brought into force on 10 May 1957. The Act as further amended in 1999, came into force on 15 January 2000. Under the provisions of section 11 of the copyright act, 1957, the Government of India has constituted a Board to be called the copyright board.
The copyright board is a quasi-judicial body consisting of a chairman and not les than two or more than fourteen other members. Read more
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