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भाग II — खण्ड 1
PART II — Section 1
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MINISTRY OF LAW AND JUSTICE
(Legislative Department)

New Delhi, 8 June, 2012/Jyaistha 18, 1934 (Saka)

The following Act of Parliament received the assent of the President on the 7th June, 2012, and is hereby published for general information:—

THE COPYRIGHT (AMENDMENT) ACT, 2012
No. 27 of 2012
An Act further to amend the Copyright Act, 1957.

[7th June, 2012]

Be it enacted by Parliament in the Sixty-third Year of the Republic of India as follows:—

Short title and commencement 1. (1) This Act may be called the Copyright (Amendment) Act, 2012.

(2) It shall come into force on such date as the Central Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, appoint.

Amendment of section 2. 2. In section 2 of the Copyright Act, 195714 of 1957. (hereinafter referred to as the principal Act),—

(i) in clause (f), the portion beginning with the words “on any medium” and ending with the words “produced by any means” shall be omitted;

(ii) after clause (f), the following clause shall be inserted, namely:—

‘(fa) “commercial rental” does not include the rental, lease or lending of a lawfully acquired copy of a computer programme, sound recording, visual recording or cinematograph film for non-profit purposes by a non-profit library or non-profit educational institution’;