Today's audience is exposed to the latest technology, with the advent of the internet, YouTube, Torrents as a medium resulting in watching and reviewing all the content available. Due to which every producer comes under pressure and is being forced to pump in a huge amount of money to produce a movie which meets the expectation of the audience also should be of Global standards. The big corporate house like Reliance, UTV, Sun, Fox Network now produce films, as a result, the budget of the film has skyrocketed. In spite of the high budget, corporate involvement there is legal innuendo. While quite authoritatively the legal frameworks are handled by the creators or producers of a film to protect from piracy through Cinematograph Copyright under Intellectual Property Rights.

Category of work Copyrighted under Cinematograph Film

"Cinematograph Film" decides the category based on nature and definition of work.

1. Any visual recording such as videos, short films, movies, animated movies, documentaries etc. will be a cinematograph film.
2. The visual recording includes moving images and therefore, any recording of moving images like photographs, stills, drawings, animated content etc. will be considered a cinematograph film.
3. Recordings of a video game or animations are moving images and therefore will be considered as cinematograph film.
4. Video recordings of choreography/dance performances/classroom lectures/public delivery of lectures will also be considered cinematographic films.

Which law protects Cinematograph Film?

The law which protects a Cinematograph Film is the Copyright Act, 1957.

Which includes any work of visual recording/videos on any medium produced through a processed from which a moving image may be produced by any means and includes a 'sound recording' accompanying such 'visual recording' and 'cinematograph' shall be constructed as including any work produced by any process corresponding to cinematograph including video films.

Registration Prerequisites

• Both Form XIV
• Statement of Particulars [SoP]
• 2 copies of the work (01 copy if work is published)
• Power of Attorney [if filing through an advocate or an individual other than the applicant]
• No Objection Certificate [NOC]
• NOC/Agreement from the publisher if the publisher is other than the applicant.

Copyright for Cinematograph: Registration Process

1. Discuss a copyright expert: about the category of Copyright registration.
2. Filling the Application
3. Examination of application: it is scrutinized by an examiner of authority.
4. In case of an objection: filed the authorities send out letters to the concerned parties.
5. Registration: Once everything is cleared from the side of registrar's end the applicant received and owner of that copyright can legally exercise all rights of copyright.
6. Required information for the registration of copyright

• Personal Information:- Name, address, and nationality of the applicant. Nature of the applicant whether he is owner and representative of that particular application.
• Nature of work:- Class & description, the title of the work. The language of the work should be mention in the application.
• Date of Publication:- If the possible date of publication in interval magazines should be mention.

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