What is
copyright?
The exclusive legal right granted by a government to an author, editor,
composer, playwright, publisher, or distributor to publish, produce,
sell, or distribute a literary, musical, dramatic, or artistic work,
within certain limitations. Copyright law also governs the right to
prepare derivative works, to reproduce a work or portions of it, and to
display or perform a work in public. Such rights may be transferred or
sold to others. Copyright protects a work in the specific form in which
it was created, not the idea, theme, or concept expressed in the work,
which other writers are free to interpret in a different way. A work
never copyrighted or no longer protected by copyright is said to be in
the public domain.
Or
A collection of rights relating to the reproduction, distribution,
performance and so forth of original literary, musical, dramatic or
artistic works, films, sound recordings, broadcasts and other matter.
The copyright owner has the exclusive right to do, or allow others to
do, the acts set out in the legislation.
HOW CAN THE INSTITUTE HELP?
Registration and Assignment of your Copyright
- Keeping a track of misuse of your Copyright
- Commercialising Copyrights