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Showing contexts for: assignment of future work in K.A. Venugopala Setty vs Dr. Suryakantha U. Kamath on 20 July, 1990Matching Fragments
"18(1) : The owner of the copyright in an existing work or the prospective owner of the copyright in a future work may assign to any person the copyright either wholly or partially and either generally or subject to limitations and either for the whole term of the copyright or any part thereof.
Provided that in the case of the assignment in any future work, the assignment shall take effect only when the work comes into existence."
Sub-sections (2) and (3) of Section 18 are not relevant for our purpose. Therefore, it is open to the owner of the copyright who is normally Ihe author of the work to assign it to any person in respect of his existing work, as well as of the future work. In this case, we are concerned with the copyright of the existing work because the work has been printed. It was only at the stage of publication of the book, the printer-defendant came forward with a plea that the plaintiff-author of the book had assigned the copyright orally. Section 19 of the Act provides for the "Mode of assignment". It reads thus :