THE ROLE OF IPR IN MEDIA INDUSTRY

Abstract

The Media Industry in India is considered as one of the biggest industries in the world and it is growing day by day. With the growth of the media industry, the amount of people claiming other’s work as their own or disturbing the exclusive rights of the creator are on the rise. Intellectual Property Rights play a huge role in media industry these days. Media Industry here, is inclusive of videos, movies, music and other content produced by creators. The huge competition that is going on in the media industry makes it necessary for the authors or the creators to copyright their content so that only they have exclusive rights over their work. Also, by doing this, their original work remains their work and no one can fake claim on it. To sum up, the basic work of a copyright, trademark and other IPRs is to safeguard the work of the creator/ author. This way, the artist can work better without any fear of being pirated. Now, let us get an insight of some basic concepts of Intellectual Property Rights such as the meaning of IPR, Copyright, Piracy, sections related to IPR which are mentioned in our Constitution, civil and criminal remedies mentioned, and the punishments prescribed for the law-breakers