TYPES OF COPYRIGHT

By Ramaswami Natarajan

Copyright Intellectual Property consists of many types of creative work. They are Literary works, musical works, artistic works, maps and technical drawings, photograph works etc.

The copyright guards the manifestation of the perception and not the perception alone. The story of a book shall be an expressed in a different way from others by using creative method. It may comprise of words, pictures, colors used in and the method in writing story.

Any story or action which is communicated by means of picture or illustration in a form suitable as book or in a paper or in a journal can be termed as literary work. Computer program also comes under literary work. Set of instructions expressed in words, codes, schemes or any other readable form is termed as a computer program. The script of the dialogue, choreography, music, lyrics, sound recording used in the drama including performance moral rights falls under dramatic work.

Musical work also falls under the copyright which includes the written music which does not consist of any words. Song lyrics are protected as a literary work under copyright where the words of the song are protected and the rights are owned by the lyricist. The graphical notation is a written music which will be protected in the literary work. The rights of written music will be owned by the composer of the music. A person who composes music is called as a composer.

A sound recording is something where and when the sound recording was made. The owner of the sound recording owns the recording company. The rights of the performer are assigned to the recording company. The recording company owns the copyright sound recording ownership. The performers should give permission when their performance is made. The performers are the creators of sound recordings as they have the moral right. Performer's right means a performance made by live performers. Musician, dancer, entertainer, actor, singer, a person delivering a lecture or any other person who makes a performance are called as performers.

Work of architecture means structural designs of any buildings which has a design. Artistic work means a drawing or a photograph, sculpture, a painting, buildings which posse's creative quality. In case of shoot, the copyright will be owned by the shooter who takes the shoot.

Cinematography film means a copy of the film produced by any medium. Producer means any person who takes the steps to produce the work. Film includes TV programs, cinema and animation where the rights will rely on the screenplay, the visual images and the sound track. Communication to the public means any work available to the public directly or by means of display or through satellite or cable. Broadcast means communication to the public by means of wireless diffusion.

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