THE COPYRIGHT (AMENDMENT) ACT, 1994
No. 38 of 1994
An Act further to amend the Copyright Act, 1957.
Be it enacted by Parliament in the Forty-fifth Year of the Republic of India as follows:—
Short title and commencement. 1. (1) This Act may be called the Copyright (Amendment) Act, 1994.
(2) It shall come into force on such on such date[1] as the Central Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, appoint:
Provided that different dates may be appointed for different provisions of this Act and any reference in any such provision to the commencement of this Act shall be construed as a reference to the coming into force of that provision.
Amendment of section 2. 2. In section 2 of the Copyright Act, 195714 of 1957. (hereinafter referred to as the principal Act),—
- (i) in clause (a),—
- (a) in sub-clause (iii), the word “and”, occurring at the end, shall be omitted;
- (b) in sub-clause (iv), the word “and” shall be inserted at the end;
- (c) after sub-clause (iv) as so amended, the following sub-clause shall be inserted, namely:—
- “(v) in relation to any work, any use of such work involving its re-arrangement or alteration;”;
- (ii) in clause (b) and in all other provisions of the principal Act, for the words “architectural work of art”, wherever they occur, the words “work of architecture” shall be substituted;
- (iii) in clause (d), for sub-clauses (v) and (vi), the following sub-clauses shall be substituted, namely:—
- “(v) in relation to a cinematograph film or sound recording, the producer; and
- (vi) in relation to any literary, dramatic, musical or artistic work which is computer-generated, the person who causes the work to be created;”;
- ↑ 10.5.1995: vide Notification No. S.O. 421 (E), dated 5.5.1995.
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