
If we own a copy of work then it simply doesn’t mean that one owns copyright in that work. The Copyright Act does provide copyright protection to authors but it does not define this term. The word ‘author’ from the perspective of copyright has evolved to essentially become synonymous with creator. A creator includes someone who writes a book, magazine or newspaper article, play, poem, or computer program. It is therefore mandatory that only the creator can subsequently sell, license, assign, or give away copyright and this must be done by written agreement. Hence, when some one want to use or to reproduce a portion of a work and needs permission of the copyright owner to do so, then it must be make sure first that who owns the copyright because the creator of the work may have given his rights provided by copyright law to another party.

