LLM Group 3 Law of Intellectual Property and Information Technology Copyrights Law and other related rights Solved Question Papers with Answers 2015 to 2026 - Mumbai University | munotes

Eight files in this folder hold TEN distinct printed papers and sixty nine questions, and all sixty nine are answered here. Three of the older scans carry two complete hundred mark papers each, not a paper and its Marathi translation, and one scan has been uploaded twice under two academic years: the 2018 and 2019 files are byte for byte the same paper, so the same thirteen answers are served at both addresses. That is how eighty two answers come to stand against sixty nine questions.

These papers reuse each other far less than a student hopes. Five stems are printed word for word twice, and every one of those five pairs sits inside a SINGLE scan, four of them between the two 2015 papers and the fifth between the two 2016 papers. Not one stem repeats across sittings. Preparing from last year's paper here means preparing the topics, not the questions.

The shape of the paper has moved twice. The two 2015 papers set EIGHT questions each. The two 2016 papers set SIX. From 2018 onwards the count settles at SEVEN, with the last question always a set of short notes. Every paper is three hours, a hundred marks and any four questions, so a question is worth twenty five whether the figure is printed against it or not, and six of the ten papers print it.

What recurs is unusually predictable, and the counts are worth knowing before you choose what to revise. The international instruments, that is the Berne Convention, the Universal Copyright Convention, the TRIPS Agreement and the two WIPO treaties of 1996, are set on NINE of the ten papers. Infringement and the section 52 exceptions are set on eight, the remedies for infringement on eight and copyright societies on eight. Assignment, licensing and relinquishment appear on seven papers and the rights of broadcasting organisations and performers on seven. Registration of copyright is set on six and the term of copyright on five.

The short notes questions must be read before they are answered, because the rubric changes from paper to paper. The 2015 papers offer six options and ask for any three. The 2016 papers offer five and ask for three, or three and ask for two, and one of them makes all three items compulsory. The first 2018 paper sets FOUR separate notes questions, each with two items and no choice at all. Every option on every paper is written out here, so the choice stays with the candidate.

Three questions in this folder cannot be answered from their own words, and the answers say so before answering what the examiner meant. One asks for the constitution of the Copyright Board, the terms of office of its chairman and members and its powers, and that Board no longer exists. One asks about a Geneva treaty of 1992 on the international registration of audiovisual works, and there is no such instrument: the Film Register Treaty was adopted at Geneva on 18 April 1989 and its application has been suspended since 1993. One pairs the PARIS Convention with Berne on a copyright paper, although the Paris Convention of 1883 governs industrial property and confers no copyright at all.

Every paper in the folder tells the candidate to cite case law, and the two 2018 papers say so in terms. The answers are accordingly built on the authorities this subject actually turns on, among them R.G. Anand v. Delux Films on the idea and expression divide, Eastern Book Company v. D.B. Modak on originality, Indian Performing Right Society Limited v. Eastern Indian Motion Pictures Association on the ownership of film music, Amar Nath Sehgal v. Union of India on moral rights, and the Bombay High Court decision of 9 March 2021 in Sanjay Soya Private Limited v. Narayani Trading Company holding that registration is not a precondition to a suit for infringement.

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