granting
of a licence) in respect of any copyright, literary, artistic
or scientific work including films or video tapes for use
in connection with television ... granting of a licence, in respect
of any copyright in a literary work.
26. That such transaction may be governed by a DTAA is then
case of a work of joint authorship, references in this clause to passages from works shall include references to passages from works ... identifying the work by its title or other description; and (ii) unless the work is anonymous or the author of the work has previously agreed
relation to a literary work or an artistic work, the conversion of the work into a dramatic work by way of performance in public ... musical work, any arrangement or transcription of the work; and (v) in relation to any work, any use of such work involving its rearrangement
applied.
A computer programme is a literary work under the Copyright Act, 1957 and the consideration
received will be in the nature of royalty ... different from copyright in any "book" though both are literary works under the Copyright Act,
1957 .
The Income-tax Act and the Copyright
author of a literary work or musical work
ceases to be the owner of copyright in the work are (a) by
assigning under ... both".
"(y) work means any of the following works,
namely--
(i) aliterary, dramatic, musical or artistic
work;
(ii) a cinematograph film
various inputs in the raw
text and it constitutes an `original literary work of the
appellants in which copyright subsists under Section ... appellants can claim that the copy-edited judgments become
their original literary work. If the right of a person
like the appellants who are merely
Copyright Act, 1957
31D. Statutory licence for broadcasting of literary and musical works and sound recording.—
(1) Any broadcasting organisation desirous of communicating ... broadcast or by way of performance of a literary or musical work and sound recording which has already been published may do so subject
notes as it was well established that abridgements also constitute original literary works entitled to copyright protection. It is submitted that the introductory line ... literary work means not only such work which deals with any particular aspect of literature in prose and poetry but also indicates a work which
expression „work‟ is defined in Section 2(y) as:
"work" means any of the following works,
namely: - (i) a literary, dramatic, musical ... musical work" as:
"musical work" means a work consisting of
music and includes any graphical notation of
such work but does
that work, or of any other work. The work of
another cannot be used for any other purpose. The copyright
protected work of another cannot ... being derivative works, are not inferior class of work. Merely because
they are derivative works it does not mean that such works can be
used
