Copyright Registration
Copyright pertains to the proprietary rights over literature, theater, music, visual art, audio recordings, and similar creations. Registering a copyright provides a spectrum of entitlements to the content, encompassing reproduction, public dissemination, adaptation, and translation. This registration safeguards creators' rights to control and benefit from their creations, fostering and honoring innovation.
Copyright protection is available for various works encompassing literature, drama, music, visual arts, films, and audio recordings. The copyright act categorizes primarily into three distinct classes of works, each with its unique rights:
- Original works in literature, drama, music, and the arts are eligible for copyright, covering creations like books, musical compositions, paintings, and sculptures.
- Cinematic productions form another copyright category, representing any visual recording regardless of the recording medium.
- Distinctly, sound recordings constitute a specialized class within the copyright act, encompassing recordings of sounds irrespective of the recording medium or method of sound production.
- The creators enjoy legal protection when their work is reproduced without authorization. Registering a Copyright makes it much easier to protect the original work against infringement.
- Copyright registration creates a public record of the work, and proof of ownership is established for the creative work.
- The owner of registered copyright gets the rights to reproduce, disseminate and adapt and translate the work.
Copyright registration applications can be submitted on Form IV along with the required fees. It can be copyrighted whether it is a published or unpublished work. Three copies of published material must be supplied with the application for published work.
The process for Copyright Registration:
- The application for copyright registration has to be filed in the concerned forms that mention the particular's work.
- Depending on the type of the work, a separate copyright application may have to be filed.
- The applicant needs to sign the forms, and the Advocate must submit the application under the name the POA has been executed.
- Meanwhile, our experts will prepare the copyright registration application and submit the necessary forms with the Registrar of copyrights.
- The diary number will be issued once the application is submitted online.
- Within the waiting period of 30 days, the copyright examiner reviews the application for potential objection or any other discrepancies.
- If there is an objection, a notice will be issued, and the same has to be compiled within 30 days from the date of issuance of the notice. The examiner may call both parties for a hearing.
- After the discrepancy has been removed or no objection, the copyright is registered, and the Copyright Office will issue the registration certificate.
