Copyrights And It’s Advantages

The creator who creates innovative things like songs, movies, writeups, music that needs a good amount of money a good source of energy and resource and any other person copies such original work done by the creator which amounts to the loss to the creator and thus to protect their work the creator go on for the copyright registration.

What is the Copyright Act?

This act is made to protect the artistic, dramatic, musical and literary work which include songs, movie, write ups etc, this protection is not for the ultimate period, the protection is valid till the lifetime of the owner and also additional sixty year after his death, the copyright act gives certain benefits to the creator such as the owner or creator can modify, reproduce, distribute can display work to the public and if any person violates the act or infringe the act then person can approach to the court and can take legal action against that particular person and such action taken will be verified by the court

What are the requirements to obtain copyright protection? 

Details of the owner these details includes name, nationality, and the address of the owner which is needed for the registration

Must have soft copies of work in the format of GIF, JPEG, OR JPG 

Before submitting the application for the copyright the person needs to get a certificate from the office

If any candidate wants registration of copyright by the medium of advocate or any reputed firm he/she must have to provide power to the concerned authority.

Advantage of Copyright registration

Once a person registers their unique work, it is then published in the copyright’s office catalogue and thus it can be accessed by the public, it protects the creator’s work and saves identity and safeguard the work from infringement.

If anyone tries to claim the work as their own work the creator can file a lawsuit against him for the copyright infringement

The copyright law helps to speed up creativity; it gives a strong pillar to the creator of original work and no other person can demolish such work.

Rights of Copyright Owner 

Reproduction Rights: as given in the act no any third person can reproduce or recreate the original work or can use any part of it, he must have the permission from the original creator to do such recreation

Distribution Rights: only the owner of the work or creator of the work has the right to distribute the work, no other party has the right to distribute the work if he/she want to distribute such work they must have the consent of the owner

Integrity Right: Any person who wants to reproduce the work or recreate the original work that particular must need approval and also have to give credit to the original creator of the work or else he/she have the right to file suit against him.

Steps to follow for copyright registration  

1. Step one: fill the application form of copyright which may take 2 to 4 working days
2. Step two: once an application form is filed a diary no will be issued to the creator or person filing the application and wait for 30 days if any objection occurs 
3. Step three: when no any objection is raised, then the examiner will approve such registration 
4. Step four: after the approval the extracts are sent to the person applying to the copyright.

The copyright law helps the creators to safeguard their work of another person or party, that no other person can make use of it without the permission of the copyright owner and if any person tries to do such the owner or creator has the right to file a suit against the particular person who does copyright infringement.

How can Lead India help?

The legal experts and the corporate litigators of Lead India will help you to complete the process of copyright registration. They will assist you with the step by step process of registration and will also guide you if someone or other party tries to infringe your copyright registration.