Copyright Registration
Copyright registration provides protection to the intellectual work of owner & ensures that originality is honored. Now, become a legal owner of your creative work
Package Included
- Consultation from Copyright Experts
- Preparation of Copyright Application
- Documentation
- Filing of Copyright Registration Application
- Follow-up with the Department
What is Copyright?
A trademark is any mark, logo, name, symbol, letter, figure, word, used by any individual or the company in order to uniquely identify its goods or services from those manufactured or sold by others. Hence, the customers must be capable of distinguishing one’s goods or services from others. Trademark registration is governed by the provisions under Trade Marks Act, 1999. Trademark registration is important as it is legally authorised by the government in order to provide the exclusive rights to the owner for branding, selling, manufacturing and using of the products and services.
What is Copyright Registration?
Copyright registration is done in accordance with the Copyright Act, 1957. With copyright registration, you may become a legal owner of your creative work in respect of books, paintings, music, video, paintings, website, mobile application etc. Copyright registration with the authority ensures that creative work of the author cannot be imitated. No person is authorized to use the same without the permission of the author or creator. The author is allowed to charge others for using his work or modifying it. Copyrights registration safeguards the rights of the creator from infringement. It gives legal protection by which no other person can misuse the copyright in any manner without obtaining the permission of the owner.
Benefits of Copyright Registration
- Safeguard of Owner : With Copyright registration, copyright owner gets the exclusive rights over reproduction, distribution, adaptation, dissemination, and translation of the work.
- Transferable Rights: Patent Registration gives the patentee a right to sell or transfer a patent as it helps in raising revenue.
- Legal Protection Creators enjoy exclusive legal protection when their work reproduced without authorization.
- Brand value A registered Copyright has a proof of ownership and you can use it for marketing and it also creates goodwill.
- Worldwide Protection If the work is copyrighted in any other country then it gives the similar privilege to that work in India.
- Copyright is an intellectual property for the owner, therefore, it is considered as an intangible asset which can be sold or franchised.
- A copyright registration makes work known across the world and it becomes searchable in the copyright registry database. Once copyright registration is done it prevents the use of work without authorization of the author.
- Copyright registration helps in ensuring economic stability as the creator will be able to reproduce his/ her art in whatever form.
What Kind of Inventions cannot be Patented?
- Such an invention which is contrary to the natural laws;
- The invention which is prejudice to human, animal or life of a plant or health or to the environment;
- If the invention is the mere discovery of a scientific principle or the formulation of an abstract theory
- The mere invention of a known process/ the machine unless such process results in a new product.
- Mere admixture which is resulting in the collection of the properties of the components;
- Mere arrangement or re-arrangement of devices which are very common in nature;
- Such inventions which are excluded by the Patents (Amendment) Act, 2002;
- Any method used for agriculture or horticulture purpose;
- Ant process in relation to medicinal, surgical, curative, prophylactic diagnostic, therapeutic or process for human being treatment
- Any process used for animal treatment in order to make them free of disease
- Invention concerned with plants and animals including seeds, varieties, and species, the essentially biological process for the production of plants and animals other than microorganisms;
- Computer Program or any mathematical methods;
- Any creation concerned with literary, dramatic, musical or artistic work including cinematographic works as well as television productions;
- Any mere method of playing the game;
- The topography of integrated circuits;
- The invention which is an aggregation or duplication of known properties of components which are traditionally known.
- Inventions in concerned with atomic energy are not patentable
- No patent shall be granted in respect of an invention relating to atomic energy