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Copyright Act, 1957 Chapter I

Title: Preliminary

State: Central

Year: 1957

.....of causing a computer to perform a particular task or achieve a particular result; (ffd) "copyright society" means a society registered under sub-section (3) of section 33;] (g) "delivery", in relation to a lecture, includes delivery by means of any mechanical instrument or by 9 [broadcast]; (h) "dramatic work" includes any piece of recitation, choreographic work or entertainment in dumb show, the scenic arrangement or acting, form of which is fixed in writing or otherwise but docs not include a cinematograph film; 10 [(hh) "duplicating equipment" means any mechanical contrivance or device used or intended to he used for making copies of any work;] (i) "engravings" include etchings, lithographs, wood-cuts, prints and other simi­lar works, not being photographs; (j) "exclusive licence" means a licence which confers on the licensee or on the licensee and persons authorised by him, to the exclusion of all other persons (including the owner of the copyright) any right comprised in the copyright in a work, and "exclusive licensee" shall be construed accordingly; (k) "Government work" means a work which is made or published by or under the direction or control of-- .....

Copyright Act, 1957 Section 2

Title: Interpretation

State: Central

Year: 1957

.....of causing a computer to perform a particular task or achieve a particular result; (ffd) "copyright society" means a society registered under sub-section (3) of section 33;] (g) "delivery", in relation to a lecture, includes delivery by means of any mechanical instrument or by 9 [broadcast]; (h) "dramatic work" includes any piece of recitation, choreographic work or entertainment in dumb show, the scenic arrangement or acting, form of which is fixed in writing or otherwise but docs not include a cinematograph film; 10 [(hh) "duplicating equipment" means any mechanical contrivance or device used or intended to he used for making copies of any work;] (i) "engravings" include etchings, lithographs, wood-cuts, prints and other simi­lar works, not being photographs; (j) "exclusive licence" means a licence which confers on the licensee or on the licensee and persons authorised by him, to the exclusion of all other persons (including the owner of the copyright) any right comprised in the copyright in a work, and "exclusive licensee" shall be construed accordingly; (k) "Government work" means a work which is made or published by or under the direction or control of-- .....

Copyright Act, 1957 Complete Act

State: Central

Year: 1957

.....disclosed, if either the identity of the author is disclosed publicly by both the author and the publisher or is otherwise established to the satisfaction of the Copyright Board by that author. SECTION 24: TERM OF COPYRIGHT IN POSTHUMOUS WORK (1) In the case of a literary, dramatic or musical work or an engraving, in which copyright subsists at the date of the death of the author or, in the case of any such work of joint authorship, at or immediately before the date of the death of the author who dies last, but which, or any adaptation of which, has not been published before that date, copyright shall subsist until 17[sixty] years from the beginning of the calendar year next following the year in which the work is first published or, where an adaptation of the work is published in any earlier year, from the beginning of the calendar year next following that year. (2) For the purposes of this section a literary, dramatic or musical work or an adaptation of any such work shall be deemed to have been published, if it has been performed in public or if any 10[sound recording] made in respect of the work have been sold to the public or have been offered for sale to the public. .....