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Nirmal Textiles purchases a licensed accounting package and its employee installs a pirated copy on additional computers without a licence. Under Indian law, which Act primarily treats unauthorised copying of this software as infringement?

The Copyright Act, 1957 governs this situation because computer programmes are protected as literary works. Installing unlicensed copies on extra machines is unauthorised reproduction and so amounts to infringement, whereas patents and trade marks do not automatically protect software code.

  1. AThe Copyright Act, 1957, because computer programmes are protected as literary worksCorrect
  2. BThe Patents Act, 1970, because all software is automatically patented
  3. CThe Trade Marks Act, 1999, because software is a registered mark
  4. DThe Indian Contract Act, 1872, which makes copying a crime

Explanation

The Copyright Act, 1957 treats a computer programme as a literary work, so making unauthorised copies infringes copyright. Software is not automatically patented, and the Trade Marks Act protects brand identifiers, not the code. The Contract Act does not define copying as a crime.

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