Section 15: Special provision regarding copyright in designs registered or capable of being registered under the Designs Act, 2000.

The Copyright Act, 1957Central Act · Act 14 of 1957

15. Special provision regarding Copyright in designs registered or Capable of being registered under the *** [Designs Act, 2000 (16 of 2000)].--(1) Copyright shall not subsist under this Act in any design which is registered under the *** [Designs Act, 2000 (16 of 2000)].

(2) Copyright in any design, which is capable of being registered under the *** [Designs Act, 2000 (16 of 2000)] but which has not been so registered, shall cease as soon as any article to which the design has been applied has been reproduced more than fifty times by an industrial process by the owner of the copyright or, with his licence, by any other person.

Where this provision sits

Act	The Copyright Act, 1957
Section	15
Marginal note	Special provision regarding copyright in designs registered or capable of being registered under the Designs Act, 2000.
Jurisdiction	Central
Status	In force as published by the source
Judgments citing it	2

How this provision has been amended

Taken from the footnotes printed with the provision by the source. Where a footnote names the amending instrument, it is quoted as printed.

omitted, Act 23 of 1983. . The words "Indian Patents and" omitted by Act 23 of 1983, s. 7 (w.e.f. 9-8-1984).
substituted, Act 27 of 2012. . Subs. by Act 27 of 2012, s. 6, for "Designs Act, 1911 (2 of 1911)" (w.e.f. 21-6-2012)

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