Question

You are studying Intellectual property this week. Here is your question for this week:

You have just written a book and a song.

1. How would you protect your rights to publish the book and your song?

2, How long can you have exclusive rights to your book and song?

Answer 1

1.

How would you protect your rights to publish the book and your song?

Answer

This can be done in 5 easy steps:

1: Register Your Copyright with the copyright office.

2: Consider Your Licensing

3: Draft Your Copyright Notices i.e. write the copyright infringement warnings.

4: Set Up Your Monitoring i.e. keep a check on the market to know if your book /song is not illegally available at any medium.

5: Plan Your Enforcement Strategy i.e. what to do in case of any breaches are observed. This should include the actions and charges that should be levied against the defaulter.

2.

How long can you have exclusive rights to your book and song?

According to the copyright Act 1976, the copyright is given to an author for his lifetime years plus additional 70 years in case the author is known.

In case of anonymous authors, the limit is 95 years from first publication or 120 years from creation, whichever is shorter.