Short title, extent and commencement:-

    Ø  This Act may be called the Copyright Act, 1957.

       Ø  It extends to the whole of India.

        Ø  It shall come into force on such date as the Central Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, appoint Copyright Registration Coimbatore.

    Interpretation :-

Ø  “adaptation” means,in relation to a dramatic work, the conversion of the work into a non-dramatic work; in relation to a literary work or an artistic work, the conversion of the work into a dramatic work by way of performance in public or otherwise;Copyright Registration Coimbatore.

Ø  In relation to a literary or dramatic work, any abridgement of the work or any version of the work in which the story or action is conveyed wholly or mainly by means of pictures in a form suitable for reproduction in a book, or in a newspaper, magazine or similar periodical;Copyright Registration Coimbatore.

Ø  In relation to a musical work, any arrangement or transcription of the work; and in relation to any work, any use of such work involving its rearrangement or alteration;  “Appellate Board” means the Appellate Board referred to in section 11;  “work of architecture” means any building or structure having an artistic character or design, or any model for such building or structure;

Ø  “artistic work” means, a painting, a sculpture, a drawing (including a diagram, map, chart or plan), an engraving or a photograph, whether or not any such work possesses artistic quality; a work of architecture; and any other work of artistic craftsmanship;Copyright Registration Coimbatore.

Ø   “author” means, in relation to a literary or dramatic work, the author of the work;in relation to a musical work, the composer; in relation to an artistic work other than a photograph, the artist; in relation to a photograph, the person taking the photograph; in relation to a cinematograph film or sound recording, the producer; and  in relation to any literary, dramatic, musical or artistic work which is computer-generated, the person who causes the work to be created;

Ø  “broadcast” means communication to the public by any means of wireless diffusion, whether in any one or more of the forms of signs, sounds or visual images; or by wire, and includes a re-broadcast; Copyright Registration Coimbatore.