THE COPYRIGHT (AMENDMENT) ACT, 1984
No. 65 of 1984
[14th September, 1984.]
An Act further to amend the Copyright Act, 1957.
Be it enacted by Parliament in the Thirty-fifth Year of the Republic of India as follows:—
Short title and commencement. 1. (1) This Act may be called the Copyright (Amendment) Act, 1984.
(2) It shall come into force on such date[1] as the Central Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, appoint.
Amendment of section 2. 2. In section 2 of the Copyright Act, 195714 of 1957. (hereinafter preferred to as the principal Act),—
- (a) in clause (f), the following Explanation shall be inserted at the end, namely:—
- ‘Explanation.—For the purposes of this clause, “video films” shall also be deemed to be work produced by a process analogous to cinematography;’;
- (b) after clause (h), the following clause shall be inserted, namely:—
- ‘(hh) “duplicating equipment” means any mechanical contrivance or device used or intended to be used for making copies of any work;’;
- (c) in clause (o), for the words “and compilations”, the words “, compilations and computer programmes, that is to say, programmes recorded on any disc, tape, perforated media or other information storage device, which, if fed into or located in a computer or computer based equipment, is capable of reproducing any information” shall be substituted;
- (d) in clause (t), after the word “negative”, the words “duplicating equipment” shall be inserted.
- ↑ 8th October 1984, vide Notification No. G.S.R. 712 (E), dated 8-10-1984, Gazette of India, Extraordinary, 1984, Part II, Section 3 (i).
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