Copyrights ©

 

According to the Indian Copyrights Act 1956:

CHAPTER III

Copyright

13. Works in which copyright subsists.- (1) Subject to the provisions of this section and the other provisions of this Act, copyright shall subsist throughout India in the following classes of works, that is to say,-

(a) original literary, dramatic, musical and artistic works;

(b) cinematograph films; and

(c) [sound recordings;]


14. Meaning of copyright.-For the purposes of this Act, "copyright" means the exclusive right subject to the provisions of this Act, to do or authorise the doing of any of the following acts in respect of a work or any substantial part thereof, namely:-

(a) in the case of a literary, dramatic or musical work, not being a computer programme, -

(i) to reproduce the work in any material form including the storing of it in any medium by electronic means;

(ii) to issue copies of the work to the public not being copies already in circulation; 

(iii) to perform the work in public, or communicate it to the public;

(iv) to make any cinematograph film or sound recording in respect of the work;

(v) to make any translation of the work;

(vi) to make any adaptation of the work;

(vii) to do, in relation to a translation or an adaptation of the work, any of the acts specified in relation to the work... 


17. First owner of copyright.-Subject to the provisions of this Act, the author of a work shall be the first owner of the copyright therein


Declaration: 

Every story published here in this website and printed out in the form of a chapbook is an original creation by me, B Kartik Seshan. Any attempt to use any of these stories without prior written permission is an infringement on my copyright ... 

Consider, again these clauses from the Indian Copyrights Act 1956:

CHAPTER XI Infringement of Copyright

51. When copyright infringed. -Copyright in a work shall be deemed to be infringed-

(a) when any person, without a licence granted by the owner of the copyright or the Registrar of Copyrights under this Act or in contravention of the conditions of a licence so granted or of any condition imposed by a competent authority under this Act-

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