4.4 Provisions of the Copyright Act, 2059 (2002, with Amendments)

The Act's architecture: the WORKS' definitions (the original works' catalogue (the literary- dramatic-musical-artistic-audio-visual-sound-recording-broadcast + the computer programs' explicit inclusion)); the RIGHTS' bundle (the economic rights (the reproduction, the translation- adaptation, the distribution, the rental, the public-performance-and-broadcast) + the moral rights (the paternity (the authorship's claim) + the integrity (the distortion's bar))); the ownership's rules (the author's default (the employment's-and-commission's allocations)); the TERM (the life-plus- fifty principle + the fixed-term faces for the corporate-and-neighbouring works — the Act's own provisions); the REGISTRATION (the Copyright Registrar's Office — the facilitative (not-constitutive) registration (the evidentiary value)); the permitted uses (the fair-dealing faces (the private-study- research-review-reporting-teaching catalogue)); the related rights (the performers-and-producers' neighbouring protections); the INFRINGEMENT's faces + the remedies (the civil (injunction- damages) + the criminal (the piracy offences: the fines-and-imprisonment + the police powers (the seizure craft))); the digital faces (the Act's 2002-era electronic provisions (the online- infringement's reach)); the amendment era's debates (the platform-and-streaming world's questions (the modernisation's agenda)). Exam Focus Long questions: (i) The PDT Act's patent-trademark-design provisions (the terms' trio — the banker); (ii) The Copyright Act 2059's architecture (the works-rights-remedies). Short questions: the FITTA 2073's technology-transfer faces; the border-measures' interface; the copyright registration's nature. Trick areas: (i) The registration's constitution: the PATENT/DESIGN/TRADEMARK = registration-required (the first-to-file); the COPYRIGHT = automatic (the registry the evidence-only) — the divide; (ii)…