Legal Protection

And helps as prima facie evidence in the court of law over ownership of the work. Along with this, it offers Infringement Protection. It gives the creator the right way to get to people who are copying their work and making a living out of the efforts of the hard created things.

Branding or Goodwill

Registered copyright can be applied for marketing and building a sense of goodwill along with quality in the minds of your customers. Registered copyright tells others that you care about want you invented.

After The Creators Death

After the creator’s death, protection can be extended. Copyright’s protection is not restricted up to the initial creators’ life span its validity is higher than any other intellectual property. It is for 60 years after his/her death also.

Prima Facie Evidence

Copyright protection gives prima facie evidence in case if the litigation proceeds. The proof is required to attest to anything in the court of law. Hence, here the copyright registration is very beneficial for creators.

Owner publicity

The registration makes work recognized across the world and it becomes searchable in the copyright registry database. Once copyright registration is made it limits the use of work without the authorization of the creator.

Restricts Unauthorized Reproduction

The registration will prove that you are serious about copyright infringement. This will help prevent illegal reproduction of the work as it gives the owner a host of legal support.

Creation of Asset

Registered copyrights are intellectual property and the rights can be traded, franchised, or commercially engaged.

Public Record

When the registration of copyright is done, a clear public record is made that benefits the original creator to build his ownership over the said copyright.

Copyright helps in establishing credibility in Market

Registered copyrights are intellectual property and the rights can be traded, franchised, or commercially engaged.

Global Protection

Works that are copyrighted in many other countries are allowed similar privileges here in India. Furthermore, works copyright registered in India are given protection in many foreign countries.

1. Rights of the copyright owner

Under the Indian Copyright Act 1957, copyright preserves the social, economic, and legal interests of the author. The copyright owner is allowed to retain the following exclusive rights.

• The owner may ask for authorship for published work under the right of paternity.
• The owner may reproduce the work in any tangible form and keeping it in any medium by electronic means as well.
• The owner may determine where to publish and where not under the right of publication.
• The owner may perform in public or talk about it to the public or he/she may make any translation or adaptation of the work.
• The owner may take certain defensive actions in case of image or reputation loss.
• The owner has a right to sell and transfer his or her work.

2. Rights of Reproduction

The Copyright Act says that no 3rd party can reproduce or make copies of the original work or part of the work unless the copyright owner has authorized to do so. It limits reproduction in the form of printing an edition of a work and recording sound and films.

3. Rights of Adaptation

The copyright creator can choose to use his work whichever way he needs. That is, he/she can build derivatives from the existing work or make new work in the same form or another form based on the original work. The following actions outline the term adaptation as per the Copyright Act:

• Transforming plays, movies, choreographic shows, and other dramatic works into non-dramatic or literary works like poems, novels, and books
• Transforming bookish works and artistic works like sculpture, photography, paintings, drawings, etc into dramatic work
• Change or modification of dramatic and non-dramatic work
• Pictorial depiction of the work
• Transcription of musical work

4. Right of communication to the public

Copyright owners can make their work open to the public using broadcast or wireless distribution whether in any or more of the forms of symbols or visual images.

5. Right of public performance

The owners of musical work and artistic work can do their works publicly. For example, a musician can play his part or an actor can perform in his play for the crowds. The artists can also choose to advertise their performance on digital platforms.

6. Right of paternity and integrity

The Copyright Law grants the moral rights of paternity and integrity to the creators. The right of paternity or attribution indicates that the creator can maintain authorship over his work and have it attached to him. That is, whoever wants to reproduce or change the original work has to provide due credit to the author, or else the author has the right to take the actions against the maker. For example, if a person needs to make a movie out of a book, he/she must properly acknowledge the author. The right of integrity preserves the right of the holder and lets him/her claim damages when someone changes, damages or alters his work creating disputation to his name and work.

7. Right of Distribution

The copyright holder may distribute his work in any form by reproducing, selling, renting, leasing, or lending. He/she can also assign particular rights to a person to either copyright the work partly, entirely, or subject to some limitations.