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| Title: | Technology Protection Measures and the Indian Copyright (Amendment) Act, 2012: A Comment |
| Authors: | Ashok, Arathi |
| Keywords: | Technological measures
Circumvention
WCT
WPPT
Indian Copyright Act
DMCA
Fair use |
| Issue Date: | Nov-2012 |
| Publisher: | NISCAIR-CSIR, India |
| Abstract: | With revolution in the field of information
technology and the availability of more works in the digital format, it became
essential for the owners of copyright to resort to new mechanisms to protect
their work effectively. The new mechanisms resorted to included technological
measures and the law came in for further protection of these technological
measures. The article looks into the extent of protection that technological
measures enjoy under the Indian Copyright Act, 1957 and their shortcomings; and
to what extent these are overcome by the Copyright (Amendment) Act, 2012,
vis-à-vis US, EU and Australian laws, keeping
in view broader public interest. |
| Page(s): | 521-531 |
| CC License: |  CC Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 2.5 India |
| ISSN: | 0975-1076 (Online); 0971-7544 (Print) |
| Source: | JIPR Vol.17(6) [November 2012]
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