CORE GROUP TO AMEND COPYRIGHT ACT
The Government has
said that a Core Group has been set up to consider amendments
to the Copyright Act and different groups of the music industry
have made their submissions with regard to retention/deletion/modification
in Section 52 (1) (i) of the Copyright Act 1957.
Replying to a question
by Shri N. P. Durga in Rajya Sabha today, the Minister of Information
& Broadcasting, Shri Ravi Shankar Prasad said the nodal Ministry
for the Copyright Act, 1957 is the Ministry of Human Resource
Development.
The Minister said
that in 1999, the Copyright Division started the exercise of amending
the Copyright Act, mainly to bring it in consonance with WIPO
Copyright Treaty 1996 and WIPO Performance and Phonogram Treaty,
1996 and the TRIPS Agreement.
Shri Prasad said
that there is no unanimous view of the entire music industry on
Section 52 (1) of the Copyright Act.
