Govt nod to Copyright Amendment Bill

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The government today gave its nod to the Copyright Amendment Bill along with two other bills which would see setting up of innovation universities and mandatory accreditation of higher education institutions.

The Copyright Bill, which was deferred by the cabinet on 26 April amid differences between human resource development and information and broadcasting ministries over some of its provisions was vetted today with further “fine tuning”, sources said, adding no provisions have been dropped in the process.

The amendments to the Copyright Act, 1958, aim at according unassignable rights to ‘creative artists’ such as lyricists, playback singers, music directors, film directors, dialogue writers who will be paid royalty every time the movie they have worked in is aired on a television channel.

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