![]() ![]() However, as world progresses, so do the humans and their intellect which brought in another form of art, which is conceived under a concept of transience in time, being non-permanent as a material and overall conservable, in its individuality. Be it the lyrics of the famous song that we keep humming all day long or the fictional characters that we rejoice reading in a novel or the cartoon character that kept us hooked to our television screens during our childhood are all subjects of copyright protection. The traditional understanding of art, to a great extent, proffers the idea of selective permanence, through time, for it being an objective transmission of an idea. While this demarcation for what qualifies for copyright protection is quite clear, with respect to certain newly evolved forms of artistic work, there is a dichotomy in regard to legal protection thereof, which is dealt with in the following article. In India, the Copyright Act of 1957 (hereinafter referred to as “the Act” 1) lays down legal protection for original expression of ideas, rather than ideas themselves by conferring it on literary, dramatic, artistic and musical works, not only limited to traditional modes of production, distribution and/or reproduction. ![]() In essence, Copyright Law accords exclusive rights to the authors of any literary, dramatic or artistic works to reproduce or duplicate the material regardless of its uniqueness or artistic impression. Copyright law does not delve into the uniqueness or artistic value of the work created rather confines itself to the originality of the expression of idea. A category of such expression of creative and original thought in the form of literary, dramatic and artistic work is covered under the Copyright Law. Intellectual Property can be referred to any asset or creation by a human being in an intangible form that is a result of his creative mind. ![]()
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