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14 August 2020CopyrightRanjan Narula and Suvarna Pandey

India: Protect engineering drawings using copyright or design?

This article analyses the challenges of protecting engineering or technical drawings that are likely to be transformed into a product. Should such as drawing be protected as an “artistic work” under the Indian Copyright Act or as a “design” under the Indian Designs Act?

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