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19th June, 1994.]

it enacted by Parliament in the Forty-fifth Year of the Republic of India as follows:—

1. (1) This Act may be called the Copyright (Amendment) Act, 1994.

(2) It shall come into force on such on such date as the Central Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, appoint:

Provided that different dates may be appointed for different provisions of this Act and any reference in any such provision to the commencement of this Act shall be construed as a reference to the coming into force of that provision.

2. In section 2 of the Copyright Act, 1957 (hereinafter referred to as the principal Act),—
 * (i) in clause (a),—
 * (a) in sub-clause (iii), the word “and”, occurring at the end, shall be omitted;
 * (b) in sub-clause (iv), the word “and” shall be inserted at the end;
 * (c) after sub-clause (iv) as so amended, the following sub-clause shall be inserted, namely:—
 * “(v) in relation to any work, any use of such work involving its re-arrangement or alteration;”;
 * (ii) in clause (b) and in all other provisions of the principal Act, for the words “architectural work of art”, wherever they occur, the words “work of architecture” shall be substituted;
 * (iii) in clause (d), for sub-clauses (v) and (vi), the following sub-clauses shall be substituted, namely:—
 * “(v) in relation to a cinematograph film or sound recording, the producer; and
 * (vi) in relation to any literary, dramatic, musical or artistic work which is computer-generated, the person who causes the work to be created;”;