India:
Artistic Works: Resolving Design-Copyright Overlap
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One of most controversial provisions of the Copyright Act, 1957,
states that copyright in any design that could be registered under
the Designs Act, 2000, but has not been so registered will cease
when any article to which the design has been applied has been
reproduced more than 50 times by an industrial process.
Mr. Omesh Puri analyses the overlap between Designs and
Copyright Laws in his latest article on IBLJ, which can be viewed
at
https://www.vantageasia.com/artistic-works-resolving-design-copyright-overlap/
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