 What can be copyright?

I am a musician

My creations: Scores - soundtracks - Audio - Arrangements - Songs – Sound Banks - Compositions -

Agreements - Web - Melody - Samples – Compliations.

 Costing: (Indian Government)

Instruction for Filing copyright registration form Online:

1. Enter your valid User ID and Password to login.
2. Click onto NewUser Registration, if you have not yet registered.
3. Note down User ID and Password for future use.
4. After login, click on to link “Click for online Copyright Registration”.
5. The online “Copyright Registration Form” is to be filled up in four steps
I. Complete the Form XIV, then press SAVE button to Save entered details, and press
Step 2 to move to Next Step.
II. Fillup the Statement of Particulars, and then press SAVE button to Save entered
details, and press Step 3/4 to move to Next step
III. Fillup the Statement of Further particulars. This form is applicable for “LITERARY/
DRAMATIC, MUSICAL AND ARTISTIC” works, and then press SAVE button to Save
entrered details, and press Step 4 to move to Next Step.
IV. Make the payment through Internet Payment gateway
6. After successful submission of the form, Diary Number will be generated (Please note it for
 future reference).
7. Please take hard copy(print) of “Acknowledgement Slip” and “Copyright Registration
Report”, and send it by post to
Copyright Division
Department of Industrial Policy & Promotion, Ministry of Commerce and Industry
Boudhik Sampada Bhawan,
Plot No. 32, Sector 14, Dwarka, New Delhi-110075
Email Address: copyright@nic.in
Telephone No.: 011-25301202

 List of Documents required to be submitted by Hand/ By Post

along with application form. Please refer to the document list
based on Type of Work
1. Music:
2 Copies of work (Graphical Notes)
DD/IPO of Rs. (as applicable) per work
NOC from publisher if work published and publisher is different from applicant.
NOC from author if applicant is other than author.
If the application is being filed through attorney, a specific Power of Attorney in original
duly signed by the applicant and accepted by the attorney

2. Sound Recording:
2 Copies of work
DD/IPO of Rs. (as applicable) per work
NOC from various copyright holders or copy of agreement (deed of assignment).
NOC from publisher if work published and publisher is different from applicant.
If the application is being filed through attorney, a specific Power of Attorney in original
duly signed by the applicant and accepted by the attorney.

Section 45 in the Copyright Act, 1957

45. Entries in register of Copyrights.—

(1) The author or publisher of, or the owner of or other person interested in the copyright in,
any work may make an application in the prescribed form accompanied by the prescribed fee
to the Registrar of Copyrights for entering particulars of the work in the Register of Copyrights:
1[Provided that in respect of an artistic work which is used or is capable of being used in
relation to any goods, the application shall include a statement to that effect and shall be
accompanied by a certificate from the Registrar of Trade Marks referred to in section 4 of the
Trade and Merchandise Marks Act, 1958 (43 of 1958), to the effect that no trade mark identical
with or deceptively similar to such artistic work has been registered under that Act in the name
of, or that no application has been made under that Act for such registration by, any person
other than the applicant.]
Supreme court Guidelines on Sound Recording and
Cinematography
In case you want to copyright a Video, Film or an Audio Recording track i.e song, we
request you to have an agreement with all the people involved in the making of it to give
an NOC in the very beginning before you avail their services, that they will not have any
Objection to you copyrighting the creative work in your favour. This has become
imperative now after the latest Supreme court Guidelines on Sound Recording and
Cinematography Copyright Registration.

 External filing services:

1. http://www.copyright.in Cost: INR 770 + Government Charges

Tel. :+ 44 203 318 03 70 contact@copyright.in

2. https://ipandlegalfilings.com
Office No. 203 + 204, 2nd Floor, Citymall, University Road, Ganesh Khind, Shivaji Nagar, Pune -
411007, Maharashtra, India.
Tel: +91-(020) 66201041
E-mail: support@ipandlegalfilings.com
3. http://www.intellilocus.com/copyright.html
+91-9871135752 info@intellilocus.com

4. http://www.legalserviceindia.com/copyright/register.htm
Ph no: 9891244487 / admin@legalserviceindia.com