JEMTEC

  Copyright can be understood as a form of intellectual property right which aims at protecting certain forms of creative works. These forms of creativity may vary such as literary works, dramatic works, cinematographic works, music etc. Since copyright has a vast application on protection of tangible or intangible forms of creative works, this paper focuses on how cinematographic works are protected under the copyright regime and how the Indian judiciary provides remedies to the aggrieved creator. But we are not concerned with what happens when there is actual infringement of the copyright but what interim reliefs the court provides to the Producers of the movies. (which are the creator in the case of Cinematographic works.) i.e. injunctions to prevent anticipated monetary loss which might happen if there is an infringement. For this we need an understanding of what qualifications a movie must possess in order to come under the ambit of copyright protection as a cinematographic w