What remedies does the Copyright Act offer?
The Copyright Act has made tough provisions for copyright infringement and provides both civil and legal remedies. Civil Remedies: The owner of copyright is entitled to all such remedies by way of injunction, damages, accounts and otherwise. Criminal Remedies : The Act provides that any person who knowingly infringes or abets the infringement shall be punishable with imprisonment and fine. The General Provision also contains a well-known general principle in Copyright Law, namely, that Copyright Protection extends to expressions and not to ideas, procedures, methods of operation or mathematical concepts as such. This means that ideas as such and facts would not be protected and what is protected is individual expression of ideas.
