Special provision regarding copyright in designs registered or capable of being registered under the Designs Act, 1911 - Section 15 

15. Special provision regarding copyright in designs registered or capable of being registered under the ¹ [***] ²[Designs Act, 2000]

(1 ) Copyright shall not subsist under this Act in any design which is registered under the ¹[***] ²[Designs Act, 2000 (16 of 2000)].

(2 ) Copyright in any design, which is capable of being registered under the ¹[***] ²[Designs Act, 2000 (16 of 2000)], but which has not been so registered, shall cease as soon as any article to which the design has been applied has been reproduced more than fifty times by an industrial process by the owner of the copyright, or, with his licence, by any other person.

[STATE AMENDMENTS

[Haryana

³[In Section 15

The words and figures, "Designs Act, 1911", (2 of 1911.) wherever they occur, the words and figures "Designs Act, 2000" (16 of 2000.) shall be substituted.]]]

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1. The words "Indian Patents and" omitted by Act 23 of1983, sec. 7 w.e.f. 9-8-1984.

2. Substituted by the Copyright (Amendment) Act, 2012 (Act No. 27 of 2012) w.e.f. 21.06.2012 for the following : - "Designs Act, 1911 (2 of 1911)"

3. Substituted by Copyright (Amendment) Act, 2012.(Act No. 27 of 2012)(Haryana).