Copyright Act, 1957
79. Repeals, savings and transitional
provisions –
(1) The Indian Copyright Act, 1914 (3 of
1914), and the Copyright Act of 1911 passed by the Parliament of the Untied
Kingdom as modified in its application to India by the Indian Copyright Act,
1914, are hereby repealed.
(2) Where nay person has , before the
commencement of this Act, taken any action whereby he has incurred and
expenditure or liabilities in connection with the reproduction or performance
of any work in a manner which at the time was lawful or for the purpose of or
with a view to the reproduction or performance of a work at a time when such
reproduction or performance would, bur for the coming into force of this Act,
have been lawful, nothing in this section shall diminish or prejudice any
rights or interest arising from or in connection with such action which are
subsisting and valuable at the said date, unless the person who, by virtue of
this Act, becomes entitled to restrain such reproduction or performance agrees
to pay such compensation as, failing agreement, may be determined by the
Copyright Board.
(3) Copyright shall not subsist by virtue of
this Act in any work in which copyright did not subsist immediately before the
commencement of this Act under any Act repealed by sub section (1).
(4) Where copyright subsisted in any work
immediately before the commencement of this Act, the rights comprising such
copyright such copyright shall, as form the date of such commencement, e the
rights specified in Section 14 in relation to the class of works to which such
work belongs, and where any new rights are conferred by that section, the owner
of such rights shall be-
a. in any case
where copyright in the work was wholly assigned before the commencement of this
Act, the assignee or his successor-in-interest.
b. In any other
case, the person who was first owner of the copyright in the work under any Act
repealed by sub section (1) or his legal representatives.
(5) Except as otherwise provided in this Act,
where any person is entitled immediately before the commencement of this Act to
copyright in any work or any right in such copyright or to an interest in any
such right, he shall continue to be entitled to such right or interest for the
period which he would have been entitled thereto if this Act and come into
force.
(6) Nothing contained in this Act shall be
deemed to render any act done before its commencement an infringement of copyright
if that act would not otherwise have constituted such an infringement.
(7) Save as otherwise provided in this
section, nothing in this section shall be deemed to affect the application of
the General Clause Act, 1897 (10 of 1897), with respect to the effect of
repeals.