Copyright Act, 1957

Section - 51 - When copyright infringed

CHAPTER XI

INFRINGEMENT OF COPYRIGHT

When copyright infringed.

51. Copyright in a work shall be deemed to be infringed-

(a)-when any person, without a licence granted by the owner of the copyright or the Registrar of Copyrights under this Act or in contravention of the conditions of a licence so granted or of any condition imposed by a competent authority under this Act-
(i)-does anything, the exclusive right to do which is by this Act conferred upon the owner of the copyright, or
[(ii)-permits for profit any place to be used for the communication of the work to the public where such communication constitutes an infringement of the copyright in the work, unless he was not aware and had no reasonable ground for believing that such communication to the public would be an infringement of copyright; or]
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