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Copyright

SAFEGUARDING YOUR CREATIVE ASSETS

As legal experts specializing in copyright law in India, we offer a comprehensive array of services aimed at safeguarding your creative assets and ensuring you reap the full rewards they offer. Our firm and associate firm is proficient in all facets of copyright legislation. We provide adept counsel and support across a broad spectrum of issues, encompassing copyright registration, infringement, fair use, and licensing. Additionally, we offer in crafting and negotiating various copyright-related documentation and registration. Regardless of whether you’re an artist, author, musician, software developer, or another creative professional, we’re here to assist you in shielding your creations and optimizing your financial prospects. Recognizing the uniqueness of each circumstance, we adopt a tailored approach to each client, customizing our services to align with their precise requirements. Our unwavering commitment lies in furnishing our clients with top-tier legal representation and individualized care. Our mission is to empower you to achieve your goals and safeguard your intellectual property rights, allowing you to concentrate on your core strengths – innovation and creation.
Our Services include
  • Pre-filing opinions
  • Copyright infringement assessment
  • Institution of legal action against copyright infringement. (IP Enforcement)
  • Defending copyright lawsuits
  • Broad spectrum Copyright Law advisory
  • Copyright Filing and Registration services
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FAQs

Patent law encourages and protects innovation and commercialization of technological advances.

Trademark is an identity of the business such as business name, logo, slogan, audio/musical tune which is capable of distinguishing the product or services of the one from that of other.

Copyright protects the expression of an idea and not the idea itself.

Copyright is a bundle of rights given to the owner / author of the original creative work to reproduce, communicate to the public, do adaptation and translation. They are mainly divided in four categories. i.e. Literary including software, artistic, audios and audio visual/ cinematographic work.

Copyright is a right given by the law to creators of literary, dramatic, musical and artistic works and producers of cinematograph films and sound recordings. In fact, it is a bundle of rights including, inter alia, rights of reproduction, communication to the public, adaptation and translation of the work. There could be slight variations in the composition of the rights depending on the work.

A. Literary work includes novels, articles, research papers, journals script of theatre or movie, lyrics of song, source and object code of software and mobile applications.
B. Artistic work includes paintings, sculptures, drawings including engineering drawings, caricatures, photographs.
C. Audio work includes ring tone, musical piece, audio stories, songs, Interactive Voice Response (IVR).
D. Cinematograph firms includes movies, lectures, AV presentations, set of instructions etc

Yes, source and object codes of computer software/ programme or mobile applications be protected under copyright registration.
Copyright is an inherent right of the creator of the work and it subsist within. Therefore, registration of copyright is not mandatory. However, registration of copyright provides authorship and prima facie evidence of ownership of the work. Which is helpful in case of violation of copyright.
Yes, Copyright is an intangible asset which can be legally gifted or the author of the work can validly assign or license in exchange of consideration. It can be inherited or bestowed upon third party by will.
The general rule is that copyright lasts for 60 years. In the case of original literary, dramatic, musical and artistic works the 60-year period is counted from the year following the death of the author. In the case of cinematograph films, sound recordings, photographs, posthumous publications, anonymous and pseudonymous publications, works of government and works of international organisations, the 60-year period is counted from the date of publication.
There are both civil and criminal remedies available for copyright infringement, depending on the facts and circumstances of the case.
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