{Sidenote: Copyright registers}
64. _Copyright Registers._--The following Registers of copyrights shall
be kept by the Registrar at the Copyrights Office:--
The Register of Literary Copyrights.
The Register of Fine Arts Copyrights.
The Register of International and State Copyrights.
{Sidenote: Method of registration}
65. _Method of registration._--The owner of any copyright performing
right or lecturing right under this Act may obtain registration of his
right in the manner prescribed.
{Sidenote: Registration of assignments and transmissions}
66. _Registration of assignments and transmissions._--When any person
becomes entitled to any copyright performing right or lecturing right
under this Act by virtue of any assignment or transmission, or to any
interest therein by licence, he may obtain registration of the
assignment, transmission, or licence in the manner prescribed.
{Sidenote: How registration effected}
67. _How registration effected._--The registration of any copyright
performing right or lecturing right under this Act, or of any assignment
or transmission thereof or of any interest therein by licence, shall be
effected by entering in the proper register, the prescribed particulars
relating to the right, assignment, transmission, or licence.
{Sidenote: Trusts not registered}
68. _Trusts not registered._--(1.) No notice of any trust expressed,
implied, or constructive shall be entered in any Register of Copyrights
under this Act or be receivable by the Registrar.
(2.) Subject to this section, equities in respect of any copyright
performing right or lecturing right under this Act may be enforced in
the same manner as equities in respect of other personal property.
{Sidenote: Register to be evidence}
69. _Register to be evidence._--Every Register of copyrights under this
Act shall be _prima facie_ evidence of the particulars entered therein
and documents purporting to be copies of any entry therein or extracts
therefrom certified by the Registrar and sealed with the seal of the
Copyrights Office shall be admissible in evidence in all Federal or
State courts without further proof or production of the originals.
{Sidenote: Certified copies}
70. _Certified copies._--Certified copies of entries in any register
under this Act or of extracts therefrom shall, on payment of the
prescribed fee, be given to any person applying for them.
{Sidenote: Inspection of register}
71. _Inspection of register._--Each register under this Act shall be
open to public inspection at all convenient times on payment of the
prescribed fee.
{Sidenote: Correction of register}
72. _Correction of register._--The registrar may, in prescribed cases
and subject to the prescribed conditions, amend or alter any register
under this Act by--
(_a_) correcting any error in any name, address, or particular; and
(_b_) entering any prescribed memorandum or particular relating to
copyright or other right under this Act.
{Sidenote: Rectification of register by the court}
73. _Rectification of register by the court._--(1.) Subject to this Act
the Supreme Court of any State or a judge thereof may, on the
application of the Registrar or of any person aggrieved, order the
rectification of any register under this Act by--
(_a_) the making of any entry wrongly omitted to be made in the
register; or
(_b_) the expunging of any entry wrongly made in or remaining on
the register; or
(_c_) the correction of any error or defect in the register.
(2.) An appeal shall lie to the High Court from any order for the
rectification of any register made by a Supreme Court or a Judge under
this section.
{Sidenote: No suit before registration}
74. _Owner cannot sue before registration._--(1.) The owner of any
copyright or performing right under this Act or of any interest therein
by licence shall not be entitled to bring any action or suit or
institute any proceedings for any infringement of the copyright or
performing right unless such right or interest has been registered in
pursuance of this Act.
(2.) When such right or interest has been registered the owner thereof
may, subject to this Act, bring actions or suits or institute
proceedings for infringements of the copyright or performing right,
whether those infringements happened before or after the registration.
(3.) This section shall not affect the right of the owner of the
lecturing right in a lecture to bring actions or suits or institute
proceedings for infringements of his lecturing right.
{Sidenote: Deposit}
75. _Delivery of books to registrar._--(1.) Every person applying for
the registration of the copyright in any book shall deliver to the
Registrar two copies of the whole book with all maps and illustrations
belonging thereto, finished and coloured in the same manner as the best
copies of the book are published and bound, sewed, or stitched together,
and on the best paper on which the book is printed.
(2.) Every person applying for the registration of the copyright in any
work of art shall deliver to the Registrar one copy of the work of art
or a photograph of it.
(3.) The Registrar shall refuse to register the copyright in any book or
work of art until subsections (1) and (2) of this section have been
complied with.
(4.) One copy of each book delivered to the Registrar in pursuance of
this section shall be forwarded by him to the librarian of the
Parliament, and the other copy shall be retained by the Registrar, until
otherwise prescribed.
{Sidenote: False representation}
76. _False representation to registrar._ _Patents Act, 1903, s.
112._--No person shall wilfully make any false statement or
representation to deceive the Registrar or any officer in the execution
of this part of this Act, or to procure or influence the doing or
omission of any thing in relation to this part of this Act or any matter
thereunder.
Penalty: Three years' imprisonment.