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AIBE 22: Intellectual Property Laws

This subject carries 2 marks of the 100-mark paper — one of the lighter subjects, but still free marks if you tab it properly. Section 45 has 19 questions on it, four times the official count.

Marks in the paper2
Questions here19
Bare act to carryCopyright Act 1957

What to carry, and where to tab

Bring the Copyright Act 1957, unmarked. Blank index tabs only — anything written on a tab can get the book confiscated. These are the parts this subject actually draws from:

Provisions that recur

Sample questions

Three of the 19, with full explanations. The first ten are free in the app.

The term of copyright in a literary work published during the author's lifetime is:

  1. The lifetime of the author, the copyright ending on death
  2. Sixty years from the year following first publication
  3. The lifetime of the author and sixty years thereafter
  4. Seventy years from the year in which the work was created
Answer & explanation
§ 22 Copyright Act 1957

The lifetime of the author and sixty years thereafter

Section 22 of the Copyright Act, 1957. For photographs, cinematograph films and sound recordings, the term is sixty years from the beginning of the calendar year following publication.

Where to find it: Copyright Act 1957, Chapter V

Registration of copyright in India is:

  1. Required within one year of publication, failing which it lapses
  2. Mandatory for literary works alone, other classes being exempt
  3. Mandatory; no action lies for infringement of an unregistered work
  4. Optional; copyright subsists automatically on creation of the work
Answer & explanation
§ 45 Copyright Act 1957

Optional; copyright subsists automatically on creation of the work

Section 45 provides for a voluntary register. Registration is only prima facie evidence of the particulars entered; it is not a condition precedent to the subsistence of copyright or to an infringement action.

Where to find it: Copyright Act 1957, Chapter X

Fair dealing with a work for the purposes of private study or research is:

  1. An infringement unless a licence has been obtained from the owner
  2. Not an infringement of copyright, being fair dealing under Section 52
  3. Permitted only to users registered with the Copyright Office
  4. An infringement in every case, fair dealing being an English doctrine
Answer & explanation
§ 52 Copyright Act 1957

Not an infringement of copyright, being fair dealing under Section 52

Section 52 lists a long series of acts that do not constitute infringement, including criticism or review, reporting of current events, and use in the course of judicial proceedings.

Where to find it: Copyright Act 1957, Chapter XI

Practise

Ten questions in Intellectual Property Laws free, no card. Each answer cited to both codes with a line telling you where to look in the bare act.

Practise Intellectual Property Laws