Copyright law of India

The Copyright Act 1957 as amended governs the subject of copyright law in India.[1] The Act is applicable from 21 January 1958.[2] The history of copyright law in India can be traced back to its colonial era under the British Empire.[3] The Copyright Act 1957 was the first post-independence copyright legislation in India and the law has been amended six times since 1957.[4] The most recent amendment was in the year 2012, through the Copyright (Amendment) Act 2012.[5]

India is a member of most of the important international conventions governing the area of copyright law, including the Berne Convention of 1886 (as modified at Paris in 1971), the Universal Copyright Convention of 1951, the Rome Convention of 1961 and the Agreement on Trade Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS).[6] Initially, India was not a member of the WIPO Copyright Treaty (WCT) and the WIPO Performances and Phonograms Treaty (WPPT) but subsequently entered the treaty in 2013.

  1. ^ "Introduction". Copyright Office, Government of India. Archived from the original on 2006-06-13.
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  3. ^ Scaria, Arul George (2014-05-15). Piracy in the Indian Film Industry: Copyright and Cultural Consonance. Cambridge University Press. pp. 47–53. ISBN 978-1-107-06543-7.
  4. ^ Das, Law of Copyright (2021), pp. 88.
  5. ^ "India. The Copyright (Amendment) Act, 2012 (Act No. 27 of 2012)". WIPO Lex of the World Intellectual Property Organization. Archived from the original on 2019-07-25.
  6. ^ India, WIPO Lex, World Intellectual Property Organization