Legal Deposit
‘Legal deposit’ is a legal accountability which requires that any organization or business, private or public, and any person generating any kind of documentation in multiple copies, be accounted to deposit one or more copies with a recognized national institution. It is important to make sure that the legal deposit legislation covers of all kinds of published material, such materials are produced in multiple copies and are offered to the general public irrespective of its means of transportation , so as to discriminate from the archival(it basically refers to the records which are either of government or corporate etc., are not available for the distribution of it to the public and is private in nature) It should also be kept in mind that public distribution could mean “performance of work” or “display of work”. For instance, a television program could be regarded as “published” for legal deposit purposes when it has been broadcast. Electronic publications environment should note that a “one copy item,” such as a database stored on one server, could be a subject to legal deposit requirement since it is available to the public through a technology sanctioning the public to read, hear or view the material.
Steps to Obtain Copyright
The steps for registration of a copyright are as follows:
a) Application for copyright registration is to be made on Form IV as described in the first schedule to the rules
b) Separate applications should be made for registration of every single work
c) Each application should be accompanied by the same amount of fee as prescribed in the second schedule to the Rules
d) The applications should be signed by the applicant or the advocate in whose favor Power of Attorney has been executed. The Power of Attorney which is signed by the party and agreed by the advocate should also be registered.
e)The fee should be either in the form of Demand Draft or Indian Postal Order favoring the “Registrar of Copyright” Payable at New Delhi or through online payment
Registering your work under the Copyright Act, 1957 in India
The copyright office has been set up to provide registration facilities to all types of works and is headed by a Registrar of Copyrights and is located at 4th Floor Jeevan Deep Building, New Delhi-110001. The applications for registration of works can be filled at the counter provided at the copyright office from 2:30 P.M TO 4:40 P.M from Monday to Friday. The applications are also accepted by post. On-line registration through “E-filling facility” has been from 14th February 2014.
Why Is It Important To Have a Copyright?
Copyright is an essential for the authors or creators as it provides them the with a legal right of ownership of the work that they produce.
This means that only the creators or authors have control over their work and ever how it used, which is not only fair but necessary for them to make a living out of their talent, research and efforts.
