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COPYRIGHT
Copyright accords protection to those with intellectual creativity. A
copyright is a form of intellectual property that grants someone the sole
rights to reproduce creative works and protects the owner of rights in
creative works against those who copy the original expression or the form
of the work. These include without limitation, books, pamphlets and
other writings, musical compositions with or without words, drawings,
paintings, architectural works, sculptures, engravings, lithography,
illustrations, maps, plans, sketches, three-dimensional works etc.
Under the Copyright Act, 2000 (‘CA 2000’), copyrights are recognized
for literary, dramatic work including cinematograph film, musical work
including sound recordings, computer programmes and artistic works.
Under the same Act, as applicable to different types of work - copyrights
are reproduction of such work, right to issue copies to public, to perform
or publicize the work in public, to make translation or adaptation of
the work, to sell or give on hire, to reproduce the work in any material
form including depiction in three or two dimensions, to make any
adaptation of the work, to broadcast the work or to communicate the
broadcast of the work to the public by a loudspeaker or any other similar
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