The creator of a work can prohibit or authorize anyone to: reproduce the work in any form, such as print, sound, video, etc; use the work for a public performance, such as a play or a musical work; make copies/recordings of the work, such as via compact discs, cassettes, etc.; broadcast it in various forms; or translate the same to other languages.
India is a member of the Bren convention and Universal convention. As Per that any work first published in any country which is a member of any of the above conventions need not file copyright again.
Registration is not a prerequisite for acquiring a copyright in a work. A copyright in a work is created when the work is created and given a material form, provided it is original
A computer program is treated as a literary work and is protected as such by copyright.
A copyright is used to protect IP that is in an original literary, dramatic, musical or artistic work, cinematograph films, and sound recordings. However, no copyright subsists in a cinematograph film if a substantial part of the film is an infringement of the copyright in any other work. A computer program is treated as a literary work and is protected as such.
Every shareholder’s agreement contains components like the number of shares issued, the issuance date, and the percentage of ownership of shareholders.
Shareholders’ agreement describes the selling and transferring of shares to third parties.
The purpose of a shareholder agreement is to ensure that shareholders are protected and treated fairly, and to lay grounds for making decisions on the third parties who may become shareholders in the future.
A shareholders’ agreement is a legally binding contract among the shareholders of a company that sets out their rights and obligations, maps out how the company should be managed, establishes share ownership, and share transfer rules – all in order to provide clear solutions to contentious scenarios that may arise in.
Shareholders aren’t supposed to make agreements public as shareholders’ agreement is a private contract and a separate document from the constitutional documents of the company such as -memorandum and articles of association – which are public documents.