Copyright in India & its Recognition

Copyrights is a bundle of exclusive rights given to the owner to financially or otherwise reward him for his skills & efforts. The exclusive rights of the owner of such property are vested with its ‘author’. It is observed that to own property in any idea, the author has to give it some tangible form. There can be no copyright to ideas.

Who is an ‘author’?

Section 2 (d) of the Copyright Act, 1957 defines as to the meaning of the term ‘author’. It states, "author" means:

1. in relation to a literary or dramatic work, the author of work;
2. in relation to musical work, the composer;
3. in relation to an artistic work other than a photograph, the artist;
4. in relation to a photograph, the person taking the photograph;