Types of Copyright in India

Copyright is a a form of intellectual Property which gives exclusive right to the Authors and creators of original work, and also it gives economic rights to the author which includes right to Copy or publication of a work, or any substantial part of asset.

 

Copyright of literary work

 

Books, poems and all literary work which is written by a author must take copyright of it because just writing the book and saving it in a Computer or hard disk does not make you a legal owner of that Book. therefore it is important to take copyright protection of each and every Literary work which is your original creation to do copyright of the same.

 

Copyright of Cinematography

 

Visual Collection of any moving object with sound is termed as Cinematographic film. It takes or requires lot of hard work to produce a cinema, and therefore there are lots of people who are involved in its production. And therefore the Producer of it can claim for the copyright of a Cinematographic Cinema. There are certain rights which are provided to the Producer and they are as follows:-

  1. To sell or resell it or give it on hire
  2. To make a copy, Photograph or produce it in parts.
  3. Producer is the only person who will publish the film in public and in that sound recording of a movie is not covered.
  4. Also the artists, the movie is not protected by the copyright of the film.

 

Copyright of Painting

 

Painting is an Artistic work and can be copyrighted, whoever makes that painting is said to be the original creation of that person.the person who buys a painting from an exhibition is not said to be the original creator of that painting unless that person has granted no objection certificate from its original creator.

 

Copyright of a Software

 

Software Developer uses Software Copyright and proprietary software companies to prevent unauthorised copying of their copyright.

 

Points of Copyright to keep in mind while remixing a song

 

Remix of a song is costlier to do a copyright of a song as Remix of a song is just a mix of songs which already there in market and not the original work of the creator.

 

There are certain issues which are faced in Copyright of a Music

 

  1. Reproduce work in any form
  2. Issue copy of the work
  3. Perform the work in public
  4. Make any films
  5. Sound recording in the work
  6. Translation of that work

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