Examine the concept of Originality in Copyright Refer to Case Laws.

Copyright is the right which a person acquires in a work, which is the result of his intellectual labor. It is a special type of intellectual property that aims at protecting the fruit of a man’s labor or skill from being misappropriated by someone else. It seeks to encourage authors, composers, and artists to create original works by rewarding them with the exclusive right for a specified period to reproduce the works for publishing and selling them to the public.

Now, S 13 of the Indian Copyright Act lists the works in which copyright subsists. It states as follows:

Subject to the provisions of this section and the other provisions of this Act, copyright shall subsist throughout India in the following classes of works, that is to say-

• Original literary, dramatic, musical and artistic works.
• Cinematographic films, and
• Sound recordings

The Indian Copyright Act seeks to protect ‘original’ literary, dramatic, musical and artistic works. The question that arises here is- what is meant by originality?

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