copyright article in the computer program or a transfer of a copy of the computer program (copyrighted article). It is therefore, clarified that a transfer ... computer program or the right to publicly display the computer program. If, on the other hand, a person acquires a copy of the computer program
treatise on copyright, Copinger and Skones James on
copyright (1999 Edn.) has defined copyright as; 'Copyright
gives the owner of the copyright ... described as a program, or series of
programs, containing instructions for a computer required
either for the operational processes of the computer itself
(operational software
distinguished
Copyright rights from Copyrighted article as under:
"Copyright rights.
(i) The right to make copies of the computer program for purposes
of distribution ... computer program;
(iii) The right to make a public performance of the computer
program; or
(iv) The right to publicly display the computer program.
Copyrighted
right to use of the AdWords program, which is a complex computer program
without parting with the copyright, thus granting licence to use the software ... computer program, or just a program, is a sequence of instructions,
written to perform a specified task with a computer. A computer requires programs
copyright right in the computer program:
(ii) A transfer of a copy of the computer program (a copyrighted article);
(iii) The provision of services ... computer program; or
(iv) The provision of know-how relating to computer programming techniques.
Transactions involving the transfer of a computer program (alternatives
computer programs, tables and compilation including computer databases'. As such, the Copyright Act, 1957 , brings computer programs within the definition of a literary work ... copyright protection as available to literary work. ( Section 14 of the Copyright Act which defines the expressions 'copyright' and 'computer program
nature of computer programs. They
allow the user to copy the program, for example onto the user's
computer hard drive or for archival ... copyright.
However, the copyright laws of many countries automatically
grant this right to the owner of software which incorporates a
computer program. Regardless of whether
copyright right" and a "copyrighted article".
Copyright is distinct from the material object, copyrighted. Copyright
is an intangible incorporeal right ... operate the program. The rights
transferred are specific to the nature of computer programs. Copying
the program onto the computer's hard drive
program
is categorized as copyright in India and therefore software-computer
program is copyrighted and copyright vests with the foreign supplier.
However, substance ... computer program is done by a lawful possessor of a copy of such
computer programme, the same would not constitute infringement of
copyright and wherefore
right to use of the
Adwords program, which is a complex computer program
without parting with the copyright, thus granting license to
use the software ... Appellant to GIL is towards
right to use of trademark and copyrighted computer
program and process, hence is in the nature of 'Royalty
