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Place, denotes an area within known boundary areas notified to be within two different boundaries cannot be same place, Bajaj Plastic Ltd. v. Collector Central Excise, (1987) 1 Bom LR 566: (1987) Mah LR 681.Place, is not a synonym for country and it is one of the rules of interpretation that surplusages are not used in enactments. The word 'place' definitely connotes a different meaning from the word 'country'. It means that where the product of one town is being described as the product of another town, Dharam Deo Gupta v. State, AIR 1958 All 865.Place, may be a large area; all that is necessary is that the place should be sufficiently so defined that the public is reasonably notified of its extent. There is not much distinction between a place and an area, and so long as it is clearly specified and well-defined in the order, there is no illegality in including an area as large as a district within the scope of an order. The public generally can be subjected to the inhabitation irresp...
Photograph
Photograph, includes photo-lithograph and any work produced by any process analogous to photography but does not include any part of a cinematograph film. [Copyright Act, 1957 (14 of 1957), s. 2 (s)]...
Indigenous films
Indigenous films, the words 'indigenous films' are general and unqualified in their contents, and must include in their ordinary and accepted sense cultural as well as other films, Chief Commissioner v. Brijniwas Das, AIR 1963 SC 408 (410): (1963) 2 SCR 195. [Cinematograph Act, 1952, s. 12(4)]...
Fine arts
Fine arts. As to copyright in works of art, see the Copyright Act, 1911 (1 & 2 Geo. 5, c. 46). 'Artistic work' is defined by the Act as including 'works of painting, drawing, sculpture and artistic craftsmanship, and architectural works of art and engravings and photographs (s. 35). 'Work of sculpture' includes casts and models (ib.). 'Architectural work of art' is defined by the Act as 'any building or structure having an artistic character or design in respect of such character or design, or any model for such building or structure, provided that the protection afforded by the Act shall be confined to the artistic character and design and shall not extend to processes or methods of construction'; 'engravings' include 'etchings, lithographs, wood-cuts, prints, and other similar works, not being photographs'; and 'photograph' includes photolithograph and any work produced by any process analogous to photography (ib.). As to what acts amount to an infringement of copyright, see s. 2 of ...
Feature film
Feature film, means a full length cinematograph film produced wholly or partly in India with a format and a story woven around a number of characters where the plot is revealed mainly through dialogues and not wholly through narration, animation or cartoon depiction, and does not include an advertisement film. [Child Labour (Prohibition and Regulation) Act, 1986 (61 of 1986), s. 2 (f); See also Cineworkers and Cinema Theatre workers (Regulation of Employments) Act, 1981 (45 of 1981); (3 of 1989), s. 2(b)]...
Certificate
Certificate, a testimony given in writing to declare or verify the truth of anything. Certificates are frequently referred to or required by Statute. A certificate is the usual evidence of the title to shares in a company. See (English) Companies Act, 1929, ss. 67 and 68; for Certificate of Incorporation, see ss. 15 and 329, ibid.; and commencement of business, s. 94, ibid., and s. 82, ibid., as to registration of charges. Also ALIENS and Share Certificate; and see Land Certificate.A document in which a fact is formally attested, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn.Trial by certificate, which has long been obsolete, took place in those cases in which the evidence of the person certifying was, by custom or otherwise, the only proper criterion of the point in dispute; see 3 Bl. Com. 333.As to when certificates and examined copies are admissible in evidence, consult Taylor on Evidence, and the (English) Documentary Evidence Act, 1845 (8 & 9 Vict. c. 113) (UK).As to the Master's Certificate in...
Dramatic work
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 does not include a cinematograph film. [Copyright Act, 1957 (14 of 1957), s. 2 (h)]...
District Magistrate
District Magistrate, 'district magistrate', in relation to a presidency- town, means the commissioner of police. [Cinematograph Act, 1952 (37 of 1952), s. 2(d)]...
Copyright
Copyright, an incorporeal right, being the exclusive privilege of printing, reprinting, selling, and publishing is own original work which the statute law first gave to an author in 1709, by 8 Anne, c. 19, for the term of fourteen years. Whether the right exited at Common Law is a long-vexed and still undetermined question. See Jeffries v. Boosey, (1854) 4 HLC 815. There is no copyright in an illegal or immoral publication, Southey v. Sherwood, (1817) 2 Mer 435; Stockdale v. Onwhyn, (1826) 5 B&C 173.The law of copyright now depends mainly on the (English) Copyright Act,1911 (1 & 2 Geo. 5, c. 46) (July 1, 1912), and 'no person shall be entitled to copyright or any similar right in any literary dramatic, musical, or artistic work, whether published or unpublished, otherwise than under and in accordance with the provisions of this Act, or of any other statutory enactment for the time being in force' (s. 31).By sub-s. 2 of s. 1 of this Act 'copyright' is thus defined:--For the purposes of ...
Censor
Censor. A person who regulates or prohibits the publication of any newspaper or the production of any play or any part thereof. There is ordinarily no censorship of the press in England; but by ss. 12 and 14 of the (English) Theatres Act, 1843 (6 & 7 Vict. c. 68), a copy of every new stage play must, before it is acted for hire at any theatre in Great Britain, be sent to the Lord Chamberlain of His Majesty's Household, who will issue a license for its production or forbid it for the 'preservation of good manners, decorum, or the public peace.' See THEATRE; CINEMATOGRAPH.Roman Law. A Roman officer who acted as a census taker, assess or, and reviewer of public morals, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn....
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