Copyright Act : Entries in Register of Copyrights. Indian Bare Acts :

Copyright Act,1957

Act No : 14

Section : Entries in Register of Copyrights.

45. (1)Entries in Register of Copyrights. The author or publisher of, or the owner of or other person interested in the copyright in, any work may make an application in the prescribed form accompained by the prescribed fee to the Registrar of Copyrights for entering particulars of the work in the Register of Copyrights: "Provided that in respect of an -artistic work which is used or is capable of being used in relation to any goods, the application shall include a statement to that effect and shall be accompanied by a certificate from the Registrar of Trade Marks referred to -in section 4 ,of the Trade and Merchandise Marks Act 1958, to the effect that no trade mark identical with or deceptively similar to such artistic work his been registered under that Act in the name of, or-that no application has been made under that Act for such registration by, any person other than the applicant. (2) On receipt of an application in respect of any work under subsection, (1), the Registrar of Copyrights may, after holding such inquiry as he may deem fit, enter the particulars of the work in the Register of Copyrights ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 For Copyright (International Organisations) Order, 1958, see Gazette of India, Pt. Sec. 3, p. 183. 2 Added by Act 23 of 1983, s.16 (w.e.f. 9.8.1984) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 29