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Principle: Copyright law protects only work. ‘Work’ means cinematographic film but does not include performance by an actor in a cinematographic film. Facts: Alia Bhatt acted in a movie (Answer the question after reading the following paragraph.)

Principle: Copyright law protects only work. ‘Work’ means cinematographic film but does not include performance by an actor in a cinematographic film. Facts: Alia Bhatt acted in a movie (Answer the question after reading the following paragraph.)

The question in this section consist of legal proposition(s) (hereinafter referred to as ‘principle’) and facts. Such principles may or may not be true in the real and legal sense, yet you have to conclusively assume them to be true for the purpose of this section. In other words, in answering the following question. Further, you must not assume any facts other than those stated in the question. The objective of this section is to test your interest towards study of law, research aptitude and problem solving ability, even if the ‘most reasonable conclusion’ arrived at may be absurd or unacceptable for any other reason.To answer a question, the given principle is to be applied to the given facts so as to arrive at most reasonable conclusion.

Option A: The acting of Alia Bhatt can be protected under copyright law as professional work
Option B: The acting of Alia Bhatt cannot be protected under copyright law.
Option C: The acting of Alia Bhatt can be protected under copyright law only as an artistic work
Option D: The acting of Alia Bhatt can be protected as film producer’s work.

Correct Answer

Option: b

Explanation

Section 2 (f) of THE COPYRIGHT ACT, 1957 says that “cinematograph film” means any work of visual recording and includes a sound recording accompanying such visual recording and “cinematograph” shall be construed as including any work produced by any process analogous to cinematography including video films.

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