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Evaluating ownership of a sound recording under both the Indian Copyright Act and U.S. Copyright Act, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit upheld a district court’s grant of summary judgment to defendants in a copyright infringement action, finding that the plaintiff lacked standing to sue because the underlying agreement granted exclusive rights that were limited in time
The identical jurisdiction provisions of the Copyright Law and the Trademarks Law, which stipulate that the competent court to try an infringement suit is the court within whose territorial jurisdiction the plaintiff resides, carries on business or works for gain, irrespective of whether the cause of action arose at such place, have been the subject of much debate
Copyright is a right provided to the author in original literary, dramatic, musical, artistic, cinematography films and sound recording under the Indian Copyright Act, 1957
The exclusive rights to use provided to an author for the creation of some literary, artistic, musical, dramatic, cinematography and sound recording are called Copyright whereas exclusive rights provided to the creator of a distinctive design are called Design protections
