Copyright Act Copyright Rules Copyright Faq Copyright Workflow Copyright Status Copyright Classification ORIGINAL LITERARY, DRAMATIC, MUSICAL AND ARTISTIC WORKS Literary The work must not be copied from another work but must originate from the author. Two authors independently producing an identical work will be entitled for copyright in their respective works. The emphasis is more on the labor, skill judgment and capital expended in producing the work. It includes tables, compilations and computer programs. Dramatic It includes any piece or recitation, choreographic work Entertainment in dumb show The scenic arrangement or acting form of which is fixed in writing otherwise But does not include a cinematograph film. Musical Includes any combination of melody and harmony, either of them reduced to writing or otherwise graphically produced or reproduced. An original adaptation of a musical work is also entitled to copyright. There is no copyright in a song. A song has its words written by one man and it’s music by another; is words have a literary copyright, and so has its music. These two copyrights are entirely different and cannot be merged. In cases where the word and music are written by the same person, or where they are owned by the same person, he would own the copyright in the song. Artistic A painting, A sculpture, A drawing including a diagram, map, chart or plan, An engraving or a photograph, whether or not any such work possesses artistic quality; An architectural work of art; and any other work of artistic craftsmanship. CINEMATOGRAPH FILMS "Cinematograph film" means any work of visual recording on any medium produced through a process from which a moving image may be produced by any means and includes a sound recording accompanying such visual recording and "cinematograph" shall be construed as including any work produced by any process analogous to cinematography including video films. SOUND RECORDINGS Any disc, tape, perforated roll or other device in which sounds are embodied so as to be capable of being reproduced therefrom. The sound tract in a cinematography film is not a record unless it is separately recorded in a disc tape or other device. Where the record is made directly from a live performance the owner of the disc or tape in which the recording is made will be the owner of the copyright.