{"id":2894,"date":"2020-02-04T13:53:22","date_gmt":"2020-02-04T13:53:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/corpbiz.io\/learning\/?p=2894"},"modified":"2020-09-30T12:08:05","modified_gmt":"2020-09-30T06:38:05","slug":"avoid-copyright-infringement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/corpbiz.io\/learning\/avoid-copyright-infringement\/","title":{"rendered":"Legal Action Against Copyright Infringement Under the Copyright Act"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-drop-cap\">The copyright is a legally certified document provided to people of the different fields of literature, drama, artistic and musical work, etc. for acknowledging their intellectual input. The main aim of copyright is to give exclusive rights or to authorize others to perform various acts in respect of the work. However, if anyone without authorization of the owner uses his copyright for any purpose, that will be\u00a0copyright infringement.\u00a0The main key focus of this blog is copyright infringement and remedies regarding the same.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_82_2 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-grey ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<div class=\"ez-toc-title-container\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title ez-toc-toggle\" style=\"cursor:pointer\">Page Contents<\/p>\n<span class=\"ez-toc-title-toggle\"><a href=\"#\" class=\"ez-toc-pull-right ez-toc-btn ez-toc-btn-xs ez-toc-btn-default ez-toc-toggle\" aria-label=\"Toggle Table of Content\"><span class=\"ez-toc-js-icon-con\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #999;color:#999\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #999;color:#999\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 eztoc-toggle-hide-by-default' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/corpbiz.io\/learning\/avoid-copyright-infringement\/#What_is_Copyright_Infringement\" >What is Copyright Infringement?<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/corpbiz.io\/learning\/avoid-copyright-infringement\/#Acts_not_covered_under_Copyright_Infringement\" >Acts not covered under Copyright Infringement<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-3\" href=\"https:\/\/corpbiz.io\/learning\/avoid-copyright-infringement\/#Who_is_the_owner_for_the_purpose_of_copyright_infringement\" >Who is the owner for the purpose of copyright infringement?<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-4\" href=\"https:\/\/corpbiz.io\/learning\/avoid-copyright-infringement\/#Civil_remedies_for_copyright_infringement\" >Civil remedies for copyright infringement<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-5\" href=\"https:\/\/corpbiz.io\/learning\/avoid-copyright-infringement\/#Authors_remedy_against_copyright_infringement\" >Authors remedy against copyright infringement<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-6\" href=\"https:\/\/corpbiz.io\/learning\/avoid-copyright-infringement\/#Owners_right_against_copyright_infringement\" >Owners right against copyright infringement<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-7\" href=\"https:\/\/corpbiz.io\/learning\/avoid-copyright-infringement\/#Penalities_for_the_copyright_infringement_under_this_act\" >Penalities for the copyright infringement under this act<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-8\" href=\"https:\/\/corpbiz.io\/learning\/avoid-copyright-infringement\/#Takeaway\" >Takeaway<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"What_is_Copyright_Infringement\"><\/span>What is Copyright Infringement?<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;When a person does anything or permits for profit without any granted license or assignment by the owner of the copyright that is deemed to be copyright infringement. According to&nbsp;<strong><em>section 51 of the Copyright Act 1957<\/em><\/strong>, copyright infringement is said to be made when a person does the following:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>When a person sells or hire or offer to sales or hire, or,<\/li><li>When he distributes for the purpose of trade which affects the copyright of the owner, or,<\/li><li>When he by way of trade exhibits in public, or,<\/li><li>Imports it to India any infringing copies of work<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"text-left\"><b>Read our article<\/b>:<mark style=\"background: #fffd03 !important;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/corpbiz.io\/learning\/limitations-on-exclusive-rights-and-exceptions-to-copyright-infringement\/\">Limitations on Exclusive Rights and Exceptions to Copyright Infringement<\/a><\/mark><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Acts_not_covered_under_Copyright_Infringement\"><\/span>Acts not covered under Copyright Infringement<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>According to <strong><em>section 52 of the Copyright Act 1957<\/em><\/strong>,\nthe work which does not cover under copyright infringement is the following:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol>\n<li>A work used for research purposes either for <strong><em>private or personal use, or any work for criticism or review,<\/em><\/strong> or reporting of the lecture in public, or, use of current affairs or current events.<\/li>\n<li>The copies or adaption of a computer program by the lawful processor, in order to utilize such computer programme or <strong><em>to make the backup of the copies for temporary use<\/em><\/strong> against loss, destruction or damage.<\/li>\n<li>Any acts were necessary to obtain information for <strong><em>operating inter-operability of an independently created program<\/em><\/strong> by a lawful processor.<\/li>\n<li>Any <strong><em>observation, study or test<\/em><\/strong> for the functioning of the computer program under the set ideas and principles which underlines any elements of the program is not copyright infringement.<\/li>\n<li>The making of duplicate copies or adaption of the computer program for the personal use and <strong><em>not for any commercial use<\/em><\/strong> is not infringed.<\/li>\n<li>The transient or incidental storage of a work or performance in the <strong><em>technical process of electronic transmission or communication<\/em><\/strong> to the public is not copyright infringement.<\/li>\n<li>For the purpose of providing electronic links, access or integration where the <strong><em>use of such links, access or integration is not prohibited by the right holder<\/em><\/strong> is not copyright infringement.<\/li>\n<li>The reproduce for any work for the <strong><em>purpose of the judicial proceeding<\/em><\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>To publish of any work made <strong><em>by the Legislature or by the Secretariat<\/em><\/strong> who is member of any legislative house of the parliament.<\/li>\n<li>To reproduce any <strong><em>certified copy made or supplied in accordance with the law<\/em><\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>To extracts the words from any published literary or dramatic work <strong><em>for the purpose of reading or recitation.<\/em><\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Any publication intended for the instructional use or <strong><em>used in any advertisement<\/em><\/strong> on behalf of the publisher.<\/li>\n<li>To reproduce any work made by <strong><em>the teacher for the purpose of lectures<\/em><\/strong>, or any part answered during the examination or answers to questions.<\/li>\n<li>The act or <strong><em>performance performed in the educational institutions<\/em><\/strong> related to any dramatic or musical work or a cinematographic film or musical work in front of a limited audience.<\/li>\n<li>Any recording utilized for the public in an enclosed hall or any residential premises or in any club or any similar organization which is <strong><em>not established for profit-making<\/em><\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>Any performance performed related to literary, dramatic or musical work in any club or society <strong><em>for a non-paying audience or for the religious benefits<\/em><\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>To store work in an electronic medium <strong><em>for a non-commercial public library<\/em><\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>The copies made of any book is not more than three under the direction of the in charge of the public library if the book is <strong><em>not available for sale in India.<\/em><\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Any research or study does <strong><em>for private use or used for the publication of an unpublished literary<\/em><\/strong>, dramatic or musical work kept in the library, museum or any other public institution.<\/li>\n<li>Any matter which has to be published in\n    <p class=\"ml-2\">\u2022 any official gazette or<\/p>\n    <p class=\"ml-2\">\u2022 any act published along with any commentary or<\/p>\n    <p class=\"ml-2\">\u2022 any publications of the report of any committee, commission, council, board or any other body appointed by the government.<\/p>\n    <p class=\"ml-2\">\u2022 any judgment, or order of a court or tribunal or any other judicial authority<\/p>\n    <\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n<ol start=\"21\">\n<li>Any publication or production of <strong><em>translation in any Indian language of an act or order<\/em><\/strong> if the translation of such acts, rules or orders is not published by the government or in case not available for the public.<\/li>\n<li>The making or publishing of a painting or drawing or engraving or photograph of <strong><em>work of the architecture<\/em><\/strong><\/li>\n<li>The inclusion in a cinematograph film of an artistic work permanently situated in any <strong><em>public place for which the public has access<\/em><\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>The use of artistic work by an author where the author is not the owner of such work<\/li>\n<li>The converting of a three-dimensional object from the two dimensional of artistic work <strong><em>for the purpose of industrial application of any functional part<\/em><\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>The <strong><em>reconstruction of the building or structure of the original constructed<\/em><\/strong> building according to the original architectural designs.<\/li>\n<li>The <strong><em>ephemeral recording by the broadcasting organization<\/em><\/strong> by using its own facilities has the right to broadcast and the retention of such recording for the archival purposes for on the ground of its exceptional documentary character.<\/li>\n<li>The performance performed related to literary, dramatic or musical work to the public for the <strong><em>ceremony held by the Central Government or the State government or any local authority. <\/em><\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Any work adapted, reproduced, issued of copies or communicated of any work for the person having a disability or <strong><em>for an organization which is benefiting to the person with disabilities. <\/em><\/strong><\/li>\n<li>The <strong><em>import of copies of literary or artistic work, company logos or promotional or explanatory material that is purely incidental to other goods or products being imported lawfully.<\/em><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Who_is_the_owner_for_the_purpose_of_copyright_infringement\"><\/span>Who is the owner for the purpose of copyright infringement?<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The owner of the copyright has remedies regarding copyright infringement. According to\u00a0<strong><em>section 54 of the Copyright Act 1957<\/em><\/strong><sup><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"http:\/\/www.copyright.gov.in\/Documents\/CopyrightRules1957.pdf\" target=\"_blank\"><strong><em>[1]<\/em><\/strong><\/a><\/sup>, the owner of the copyright is one who is an\u00a0<strong><em>exclusive licensee<\/em><\/strong>. Also in the case of an anonymous or pseudonymous work of literary, dramatic, artistic or musical work, the identified\u00a0<strong><em>author or joint authors (whose identity is disclosed in public)<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0or\u00a0<strong><em>the publisher (when the author is not known)<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0or is established by the satisfaction of the Appellate Court, would be treated as an owner of the copyright.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Civil_remedies_for_copyright_infringement\"><\/span>Civil remedies for copyright infringement<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The owner of the copyright is entitled to the remedies by way of&nbsp;<strong><em>injunction, damages, accounts or otherwise<\/em><\/strong>, that is conferred by law for the copyright infringement under&nbsp;<strong><em>section 55<\/em><\/strong>&nbsp;of the act. The&nbsp;<strong><em>onus of the proof lies to the defendant<\/em><\/strong>&nbsp;to prove that he was not aware and had no reasonable ground for copyright infringement. The costs of all parties in any proceedings in respect of the copyright infringement of shall be at the discretion of the court.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Authors_remedy_against_copyright_infringement\"><\/span>Authors remedy against copyright infringement<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The special rights of the author are given under&nbsp;<strong><em>section 57<\/em><\/strong>&nbsp;of the act regarding copyright infringement. The author of the work can&nbsp;<strong><em>claim the authorship of the work.<\/em><\/strong>&nbsp;The author can also restrain, or&nbsp;<strong><em>claim damages in respect of any distortion, mutilation, modification<\/em><\/strong>&nbsp;or any other act related to said work which would be prejudicial to his honour or reputation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Owners_right_against_copyright_infringement\"><\/span>Owners right against copyright infringement<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The owner has the&nbsp;<strong><em>right to take back all the infringing copies<\/em><\/strong>&nbsp;of his work and also all plates used or intended to be&nbsp;<strong><em>used in the production of the infringing copies<\/em><\/strong>. The owner may accordingly file the proceedings for the&nbsp;<strong><em>recovery of possession<\/em><\/strong>&nbsp;for the same under&nbsp;<strong><em>section 58.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, the&nbsp;<strong><em>owner will not be entitled to the remedy if the defendant proves the following:&nbsp;<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>That he was not aware and had no reasonable grounds to believe that copyright subsisted in work of such infringed copies<\/li><li>that he had no reasonable grounds to believe that such plates were involved in copyright infringement.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Penalities_for_the_copyright_infringement_under_this_act\"><\/span>Penalities for the copyright infringement under this act<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>Under&nbsp;<strong><em>section 63<\/em><\/strong>&nbsp;if any person knowingly infringes or abets to infringement of the copyright shall be liable for the imprisonment of not less than&nbsp;<strong>six months<\/strong>&nbsp;which may extend to 3 years. The fine imposed of&nbsp;<strong>Rs, 50,000<\/strong>&nbsp;which may extend to Rs 2 Lakhs.<\/li><li>Under&nbsp;<strong><em>section 63(A)<\/em><\/strong>&nbsp;&nbsp;if any person repeated the copyright infringement shall be punished with the imprisonment of not less than&nbsp;<strong>one year<\/strong>&nbsp;and which may extend to 3 Lakhs. The fine imposed of&nbsp;<strong>Rs 1 Lakhs<\/strong>&nbsp;which may extend to Rs 2 Lakhs.<\/li><li>Under&nbsp;section 63(B)&nbsp;if any person knowingly makes infringing copies of the computer program shall be liable for the imprisonment of not less than&nbsp;<strong>seven days<\/strong>&nbsp;which may extend to 3 years \u2014 the imposition of a fine of&nbsp;<strong>Rs, 50,000<\/strong>&nbsp;which may extend to Rs 2 Lakhs.<\/li><li>Under&nbsp;<strong><em>section 64<\/em><\/strong>, The&nbsp;<strong><em>police officer may seize<\/em><\/strong>&nbsp;the infringing copies&nbsp;<strong><em>without a warrant<\/em><\/strong>. The owner or interested person can make an application before the magistrate&nbsp;<strong><em>within 15 days of such seizure<\/em><\/strong>&nbsp;related to infringing copies. On hearing to the complainant, the magistrate will pass an order for inquiry as he thinks fit.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Penalty for making false entries in the register<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Under&nbsp;<strong><em>section 67<\/em><\/strong>&nbsp;person who makes&nbsp;<strong><em>false entries in register of the copyright<\/em><\/strong>&nbsp;or falsely purporting to make a copy of any entry kept under this act shall be liable for the imprisonment which may extend to&nbsp;<strong><em>1 year or fine or both<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Penalty for making false statements to any officer or authority<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Under&nbsp;<strong><em>section 68<\/em><\/strong>, a person who makes any&nbsp;<strong><em>false statements to deceive any officer<\/em><\/strong>&nbsp;or authority for the purpose of this act. Also, if the person influences to do or to omit any act in relation to the execution of the provisions under this act shall be liable for the imprisonment which may extend to&nbsp;<strong><em>1 year or fine or both<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Penalties to companies for copyright infringement<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>Under section 69<\/em><\/strong>&nbsp;when an offence committed by a company, it is proved that the offence was committed with the consent or connivance of any director, manager, secretary or another officer of the company then shall be liable to be proceeded against and punished accordingly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Takeaway\"><\/span>Takeaway<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The owner of copyright work has the exclusive rights which cannot be used or infringed by any other person. Until and unless the owner does not assign any right to another person no one can use is copyright. The <a href=\"https:\/\/corpbiz.io\/\"><strong>Corpbiz<\/strong><\/a> helps in the <a href=\"https:\/\/corpbiz.io\/copyright-registration\"><strong>copyright registration<\/strong><\/a> and also provides legal assistance regarding the cases related to copyright infringement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"text-left\"><b>Read our article<\/b>:<mark style=\"background: #fffd03 !important;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/corpbiz.io\/learning\/obtain-copyright-registration-in-india\/\">How To Obtain Copyright Registration in India?<\/a><\/mark><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The copyright is a legally certified document provided to people of the different fields of literature, drama, artistic and musical work, etc. for acknowledging their intellectual input. The main aim of copyright is to give exclusive rights or to authorize others to perform various acts in respect of the work. However, if anyone without authorization [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":2895,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[190],"tags":[309],"acf":{"service_id":"21"},"authorName":"Soumya Bajpai","authorImageUrl":"https:\/\/corpbiz.io\/learning\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/0.jpg","authorDescription":"Soumya has done LLB (Hons) and has a 2+years experience in writing. Her main interest is in reading judgments, new enactments and amendments taking around in law. 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