Section 41 – THE COPYRIGHT ACT, 1957

Provisions asto works of certain international organisations

— (1)Where—
(a) any work is made or first published by or under the direction or control of any organisation to
which this section applies, and
(b) there would, apart from this section, be no copyright in the work in India at the time of the
making or, as the case may be, of the first publication thereof, and
(c) either—
(i) the work is published as aforesaid in pursuance of an agreement in that behalf with the
author, being an agreement which does not reserve to the author the copyright, if any, in the
work, or
(ii) under section 17 any copyright in the work would belong to the organisation;
there shall, by virtue of this section, be copyright in the work throughout India.
(2) Any organisation to which this section applies which at the material time had not the legal
capacity of a body corporate shall have and be deemed at all material times to have had the legal capacity of a
body corporate for the purpose of holding, dealing with, and enforcing copyright and in connection with all
legal proceedings relating to copyright.
(3) The organisations to which this section applies are such organisations as the Central Government may,
by order2 published in the Official Gazette, declare to be organisations of which one or more sovereign
powers or the Government or Governments thereof are members to which it is expedient that this section
shall apply.

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