Copyright

A copyright is a right given by the law to creators of literary, dramatic, musical and artistic works and producers of cinematograph films and sound recordings. These are a bundle of rights including, inter alia, rights of reproduction, communication to the public and adaptation and translation of the work. These rights differ slightly depending on the work. India’s Copyright Act of 1957 protects the original literary, dramatic, musical and artistic works and cinematograph films and sound recordings from unauthorized uses. It protects the expressions not the ideas. The history of copyright is that Queen Mary I in 1557 established copyright in England. It was not done by a royal decree that is when the law must be carried out because royalty brought it up, but it was done as an act of parliament.  The first grant of copyright was given to printers and booksellers and not to authors. The current U.S. copyright statutes are the Copyright Act of 1976 and the Sonny Bone copyright term Extension Act of 1998.