National Council of Applied Economic Research
The Indian Copyright Act (1957) prohibits parallel imports of books, films/music and software. The copyright (Amendment) Bill 2010 seeks to insert the following proviso to section 2 of the IPA (1957): “provided that a copy of a work published in any country outside India with the permission of the author of the work and imported from that country into India shall not be deemed to be an infringing copy”. The study undertook cost-benefit analysis for producers and consumers of these products as a consequence of parallel imports being allowed in India.
This NCAER research study commissioned by the Ministry of Human Resource Development was undertaken with the primary objective of examining parallel import restrictions and outline the issues of concern for the producers of copyright material who import their own or their subsidiaries’ goods produced abroad, and equally important, to outline the concerns of the consumers... Read More
