COPYRIGHT PORTFOLIO

Copyright protects much of what modern businesses actually sell: code, content, catalogues, campaigns and creative output. The right arises on creation under the Copyright Act, 1957, but its commercial value depends on what can be proved and enforced. That means a clean chain of title, a registration that stands as prima facie evidence of ownership, and licences that define exactly what a counterparty may do. Khurana & Khurana advises software companies, publishers, media and entertainment houses and consumer brands on copyright registration in India, and on asserting those rights before the Copyright Office, the High Courts and online platforms.

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Our Copyright Services

• Registration of literary works (including computer programs), artistic, dramatic and musical works, cinematograph films and sound recordings

• Licensing and assignment for the sale, purchase and exploitation of copyrighted works, with monetisation strategy

• Copyright audits and due diligence to verify ownership and find third-party exposure, including under software licences

• Overlapping rights analysis where a work may also qualify for design or trademark protection

• Online enforcement, including platform takedowns and content management

• Civil and criminal enforcement, including infringement suits, search and seizure operations, and representation before the Copyright Office and the High Courts

 

Our Approach

1. Chain of title, verified. We trace authorship and ownership through employment terms, freelance engagements and commissioning agreements, and close any gaps by assignment before they surface in diligence or litigation.

2. Registration prioritised by value. Filings concentrate on the works that earn revenue or attract copying, rather than registering everything.

3. Licences that preserve control. Scope, media, territory, term, exclusivity and royalties are defined precisely, so use of the work stays within your commercial plan.

4. Enforcement matched to the infringement. Platform takedowns and notices for routine misuse; injunctions, damages and search and seizure where the scale warrants it.

 

Why Choose Khurana & Khurana

• Registrations prepared to litigation standards. The team that files your works also argues infringement and cancellation matters, so each application is prepared with its eventual use as evidence in mind.

• Fluency in software. Regular work on computer program registrations, open-source compliance and software licensing puts us where copyright meets technology law.

• Cross-border reach. Associates abroad support clients whose works are used across jurisdictions, relying on Berne Convention protection.

 

Key Information

What copyright protects

• Original works. The work must originate from its author and reflect some intellectual effort, not mere copying.

• Expression, not ideas. Copyright protects the way an idea is expressed, not the idea itself. Titles, slogans, blank forms and formulas are not protected.

• Fixed works. The work must be recorded in a physical or digital form.

 

Documents for copyright registration in India

• Application in Form XIV, with the statement of particulars, signed by the applicant

• A separate application for each work, with the prescribed fee

• Copies of the work (for computer programs, the source code)

• Title, language and applicant details

• Power of attorney, where filed through an agent

• No objection certificates where required, for example from the author, the publisher, or a person depicted in an artistic work

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Protect the works your business earns from

Reach out to as at info@khuranaandkhurana.com, and tell us what you create and how you sell it. We will recommend which works to register first and how to license them.