Copyright is the legal right granted to creators of literary, dramatic, musical, and artistic works and producers of films and recordings. The holder of Copyright has the right to reproduce, replicate, adapt, translate and distribute the work he has created. Copyright ensures certain minimum safeguards of authors' rights over their creations, thereby rewarding and protecting creativity. The Copyright Act, 1957, protects original literary, dramatic, musical and artistic works and cinematograph films and sound recordings from unauthorised usage and copying of their creation. Copyright protects the expressions and not the ideas. There’s no copyright protection for ideas, procedures, strategies of operation or mathematical concepts.
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Listed below are the documents that are required for registering a Copyright
Certificate of Incorporation (if the Copyright is to be registered for a Company)
Copyright protection is valid for 60 years. If it is literary, dramatic, musical and artistic works, the 60 years is counted from the year following the expiry of the author. For cinematograph films, sound recordings, photographs, posthumous publications, anonymous and pseudonymous publications, works of government and works of international organisations, the 60 years is counted from the date of publication.
A copyright registration can be sold, transferred, gifted and franchised with due consent from the owner of the work.
Considering the various factors, including objections and responses, the entire process may take up to 8-10 months approximately.
Yes, if the discrepancy is not removed within the said timeline, the application will be abandoned.
A trademark is for protecting a brand name, logo or slogan. While copyright is a protection given to unique content like books, music, videos, songs and other artistic content.
Works that are not fixed in a tangible form, such as ideas, procedures, methods, systems, processes, concepts, principles, or discoveries, unwritten speeches, etc., cannot be copyrighted.
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Preparing and Filing Application for registration of copyright in literary (Software & Computer Programs), dramatic, musical or artistic work, cinematographic film and sound recording. (Per Work)