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Copyright in India: The Act, Read Properly

The Copyright Act, 1957 — which works are protected, who owns them by default, what infringement actually is, how long it lasts, and the 2012 amendment that changed what an Indian songwriter can sign away.

Topic
Music Business
Level
Intermediate
Format
Guide
Time
14 min

Every competing audio curriculum teaches American or British copyright. If you are working in India, that is not a small mismatch — the statute is different, the term calculations are different, the collecting bodies are different, and the one provision that most protects Indian songwriters has no counterpart abroad.

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