The Copyright (Amendment) Rules, 2016

Official text

MINISTRY OF COMMERCE AND INDUSTRY

(Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion)

NOTIFICATION

New Delhi, the 10th August, 2016

G.S.R. 788(E) .— In exercise of the powers conferred by section 78 of the Copyright Act, 1957 (14 of

1957), the Central Government hereby makes the following rules further to amend the Copyright Rules, 2013,

namely:-

1. (1) These rules may be called the Copyright (Amendment) Rules, 2016.

(2) They shall come into force on the date of their publication in the Official Gazette.

2. In the Copyright Rules, 2013 (herein after referred to as the principal rules), in rule 3, in sub-rule (1),

in the proviso, for the words “other member shall hold office”, the words “other members shall not hold

office”, shall be substituted.

3. In rule 70 of the principal rules, -

(a) in sub-rule (6), for the words, “in relation to any goods”, the words “in relation to any goods or

services”, shall be substituted.

(b) in sub-rule (11), for the words and figures, “sub-rule (7)”, the words and figures “sub-rule

(10)”, shall be substituted.

4. In principal rules, in the First Schedule, in FORM XIV, under the heading ‘Statement of Particulars’, in

item 14, for the words “in relation to any goods”, the words “in relation to any goods or services”, shall be

substituted;

[F. No. 9-1/2015-CRB/L.U.]

RAJIV AGGARWAL, Jt. Secy.

Note : The principal rules were published in the Gazette of India, Extraordinary, Part-II, Section 3, Sub-section (i),

vide number G.S.R. 172 (E), dated the 14th March, 2013.

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