Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works

can be defined as, “The practice of taking someone else’s work or idea and passing them off as one’s own.” In simpler words if you, - Stole and pass off somebody else’s work as your own - Used somebody else’s work without citing it - You are presenting a new idea which already has been presented or copyrighted - Giving incorrect information about the source of a quotation - Copying many words, so that it’ll create bulk of your work, then you have committed plagiarism. In academics, most…

Chapter-1 Performer’s rights: new dimension of copyright laws INTRODUCTION Performer’s rights with respect to cinematographic films have always been an area of dispute, this is because the producer is considered as the owner of such work and he can exploit the work for his economic advantage. A cinematographic film consists of a different rights associated to it and producer is considered as the holder of the bundle of rights only because he takes the initiative, like in a company’s case a…

defined period of time. It is an established fact that the protection…