THE COPYRIGHT ACT, 1957

Penalty for contravention of section 52A Any person who publishes a 2[sound recording] or avideo film in contravention of the provisions of section 52A shall be punishable with imprisonment which mayextend to three years and shall also be liable to fine.] Practice area’s of B K Goyal & Co LLP Income Tax Return Filing | […]

Offences by companies — (1) Where any offence under this Act has been committed by a company, everyperson who at the time the offence was committed was in charge of, and was responsible to the company for, theconduct of the business of the company, as well as the company shall be deemed to be guilty

Penalty for making false statements for the purpose of deceiving or influencing any authority or officer Any person who,—(a) with a view to deceiving any authority or officer in the execution of the provisions of this Act, or(b) with a view to procuring or influencing the doing or omission of anything in relation to this

Penalty for making false entries in register, etc., for producing or tendering false entries Anyperson who,—(a) makes or causes to be made a false entry in the Register of Copyrights kept under this Act, or(b) makes or causes to be made a writing falsely purporting to be a copy of any entry in such register,

Disposal of infringing copies or plates for purpose of making infringing copies The Court tryingany offence under this Act may, whether the alleged offender is convicted or not, order that all copies of thework or all plates in the possession of the alleged offender, which appear to it to be infringing copies, or platesfor the

Protection of Rights ManagementInformation Any person, who knowingly, —(i) removes or alters any rights management information without authority, or(ii) distributes, imports for distribution, broadcasts or communicates to the public, without authority, copiesof any work, or performance knowing that electronic rights management information has been removedor altered without authority,shall be punishable with imprisonment which may extend

Protection of technological measures (1) Any person who circumvents an effectivetechnological measure applied for the purpose of protecting any of the rights conferred by this Act, with theintention of infringing such rights, shall be punishable with imprisonment which may extend to two years andshall also be liable to fine.(2) Nothing in sub-section (1)shall prevent any

Possession of plates for purpose of making infringing copies Any person who knowingly makes,or has in his possession, any plate for the purpose of making infringing copies of any work in whichcopyright subsists shall be punishable with imprisonment which may extend to 4[two years and shall also beliable to fine.] Practice area’s of B K

Power of police to seize infringing copies [(1) Any police officer, not below the rank of a subinspector, may, if he is satisfied that an offence under section 63 in respect of the infringement of copyrightin any work has been, is being, or is likely to be, committed, seize without warrant, all copies of the

Knowing use of infringing copy of computer programme to be an offence Any person whoknowingly makes use on a computer of an infringing copy of a computer programme shall bepunishable with imprisonment for a term which shall not be less than seven days but which may extend to threeyears and with fine which shall not