Technological Protection Measures and the Indian Copyright (Amendment) Act, 2012: A Comment
Arathi Ashok · SSRN Electronic Journal · 2014
With revolution in the field of information technology and the availability of more and more works in the digital format, it became essential for the owners of copyright to resort to new mechanism to protect their work effectively. The new mechanism resorted to included technological measures and the law came in for further protection of these technological measures. The article looks into the extent of protection the technological measures under the Indian Copyright Act, 1957 and its shortcomings; and to what extent it has been overcome by the 2012 Amendment Act.