In the last Article MW 1.05, finally the question asked was – For administrating  the author’s and owner’s musical or literary work ( for that matter any work) , how the registered Copyright societies  can ask to sign  the assignment and license deeds ? Practically in India , exceptions may be there but generally  all […]

In our endeavour to explain various works defined under the Copyright Act 1957 and in particular Musical work herein, it’s important to cover the topic on the cardinal facts based for commercial utilisations of such works. In India , the word commercial exploitation is in vogue than commercial utilisation because from the inception of the […]

The history of copyright law in India can be traced back to its colonial era under the British Empire. The Copyright Act, 1957 was the first post-independence copyright legislation in India and the law has been amended six times since 1957 with major amendments in 1994 & 2012. The most recent amendment was in the […]

Continuation from previous article MW 1-01 In last article, two provisos (a) & (b) of Section 17 of Copyright Act 1957 have been explained wherein musical work of the composers does not have any place but in the third  Proviso (c) of Section 17 of Copyright Act 1957, musical work is covered and have been […]