BDS Legal Services declared the important remedies for copyright infringement

2024-11-21 04:20:31 Legal / Law

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Mumbai, Maharashtra, February 8th, 2019--- BDS Services, a database management and an ISO Certified Company in accordance with GDPR Compliance, is proud to declare one of their sister concern company, the ?BDS Legal Services?, a leading national law firm in India by offering excellent legal panacea in the chosen practice areas with a strong importance on ethics.
BDS Legal Services has declared the important remedies for copyright infringement, they are:
? Civil
? Criminal, and
? Administrative
It is only the first two remedies, namely civil and criminal, which are of practical importance.
A. CIVIL REMEDIES:
The most beneficial civil remedy is the permit of interlocutory instruction since most performances start with an application for some interlocutory alleviation and in most cases, the affair never proceeds beyond the interlocutory step. The other civil remedies include harms ? actual and transformation; execution of balance sheet of payback and delivery up.
1) INTERLOCUTORY INJUNCTIONS: The ethics on which interlocutory should be permitted were discussed in detail in the English case of American Cyanamid v Ethicon Ltd. (1975). After this case, it was trusted that the elegant needs for the grant of the interim injunction, namely,
a) Prima facie case
b) Balance of Convenience, and
c) Irreparable injury
2) PECUNIARY REMEDIES: Under Indian law, nevertheless, there is a deviation made and the plaintiff, under sections 55 and 58, can ask retrieval of all three remedies, namely (a) account of profits (b) compensatory damages and (c) conversion damages which are evaluated on the basis of value of the article transformed.
3) ANTON PILLER ORDERS: The Anton Pillar Order defines its name from a Court of Appeal decision in Anton Pillar AG V. Manufacturing Processes [1976]. An Anton Piller Order has the following factors:
? An injunction stopping the accused from handling in the infringing goods or damaging, them;
? An order that the plaintiffs' legal practitioners be granted to enter the premises of the accused, search the same and take goods in their secured custody; and
? An order that the accused is directed to reveal the names and addresses of suppliers and customers and also to register affidavits will a particular time giving this information.
4) MAREVA INJUNCTION: Mareva Injunction is a command or instruction which briefly solidifies assets of an accused thus protecting the accused from irritating the judgment by ejection of such assets.
5) NORWICH PHARMACAL ORDERS: These are orders by which details can be explored from third parties.
B. CRIMINAL REMEDIES:
Criminal remedies for copyright violation involve:
I. Punishment through confinement which, under Indian law, may not be less than six months but which may expand to three years;
II. Charges or fines which, under Indian law, shall not be less than Rs.50,000. and which may overreach to Rs.200, 000.
III. Search and confiscation of the infringing goods involving plates which are described as including blocks, molds, transfers, negatives, photocopying equipment or any other device used or conscious to be utilized for printing or reproducing copies of the work.
IV. Delivery up of infringing copies or plates to the possessor of the copyright.
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