Akansha Yadav, PhD Scholar, Galgotias University, Greater Noida
ABSTRACT
Copyright is one of the major part of the Intellectual Property Rights awarding protection to the creator of the work for their valuable and unique creation. From the year 1957, the Copyright Act has been extending protection to various forms of works including the literary, artistic, dramatic or musical works etc. With the advent of internet and a fast moving world after globalization, it has become difficult to grant protection to a wider range of creativities and works especially in the field of Media. Media, be it print media or the digital media is always under the limelight of copyright infringement in one way or the other. The media field is the epicenter of the creativity and a wide number of artists are associated with it. Music, pictures, films, sound recordings etc. are a daily event. It is for this reason that ideas are not directly identified under the coverage of the Copyright. Rather ideas which are unique, converted into a paper (a tangible object) which we call as scripts are protected. Understanding these issues together with coping up to the growing competition in the field has been quite a challenge. This paper intends to not only cover the current copyright regulations with regard to the field of media, but also deals with the major issues that are found in the industry where copyright is or is capable to be infringed. The paper briefly reviews the Copyright Act Amendment of 2012 which was made in view to cope with the ever growing technology. In this regard, few of the popular cases have been covered for better understanding and aids in understanding the stand of judiciary in cases when a copyright is infringed. One cannot possibly ignore the growth of social media platforms and the users on it. The copyright regulations with regard to these social media platforms have also been dealt briefly in the paper.
Keywords: Copyright Act, Infringement, License, Media, Works
