Infringement of Copyrights and Remedies

A coaching-class owner in Dadar photocopies a publisher’s guide and sells the copies at half price. A film company releases a song that sounds very like an older hit. A website hosts pirated web series and earns from ads. Which of these is infringement, who can sue, and what can the owner actually get from a court: a stop order, money, or a prison term? The Act answers through three chapters, on infringement, civil remedies and offences.

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Copyright is infringed when someone does, without licence, an act reserved to the owner (s.51(a)) or deals in infringing copies (s.51(b)); the owner may seek injunction, damages and accounts in the district court (ss.55, 62), and knowing infringement is a criminal offence punishable under s.63.

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