Copyright Registration (Form XIV)

  1. Enter your valid User ID and Password to login.
  2. Click onto NewUser Registration, if you have not yet registered.
  3. Note down User ID and Password for future use.
  4. After login, click on to link "Click for online Copyright Registration".
  5. The online "Copyright Registration Form" is to be filled up in four steps:
    1. Complete the Form XIV, then press SAVE button to Save entered details, and press Step 2 to move to Next Step.
    2. Signature to be scanned in 512 KB and kept ready for uploading.
    3. Fillup the Statement of Particulars, and then press SAVE button to Save entered details, and press Step 3/4 to move to Next step.
    4. Fillup the Statement of Further particulars. This form is applicable for "LITERARY/ DRAMATIC, MUSICAL, ARTISTIC AND SOFTWARE" works, and then press SAVE button to Save entered details, and press Step 4 to move to Next Step.
    5. Make the payment through Internet Payment gateway.
  6. After successful submission of the form, Diary Number will be generated (Please note it for future reference).
    1. Artistic Work to be uploaded in pdf/jpg format.
    2. Sound Recording Work to be uploaded in mp3 format.
    3. Literary/Dramatic, Music and Software* Work to be uploaded in pdf format, less than 10 MB, keep ready.

      *Pdf containing at least first 10 and last 10 pages of source code, or the entire source code if less than 20 pages, with no blocked out or redacted portions.
  7. Please take 1 hard copy (print) of "Acknowledgement Slip" and 1 hard copy (print) of "Copyright Registration Form", and send it by post to:
Copyright Division
Department For Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade
Ministry of Commerce and Industry
Bouddhik Sampada Bhawan,
Plot No. 32, Sector 14, Dwarka, New Delhi-110078
Email Address: copyright[at]nic[dot]in
Telephone No.: 011-28032496
Note: The documents uploaded shall not be password protected.

Change in Particulars (Form XV)

  1. Enter your valid User ID and Password to login.
  2. Click onto NewUser Registration, if you have not yet registered.
  3. Note down User ID and Password for future use.
  4. After login, click on to link "Click here for filling form XV".
Pre-Requisite :
  1. Registration certificate number and date of issue (Mandatory)
  2. Evidence of prior intimation of filing of Form XV to the interested/affected person(s), if any.
  3. Signature to be scanned in jpg format with less than 512 KB and kept ready for uploading.
  4. All the documents to be uploaded in pdf format in less than 5 MB.
Necessary Documents :
  1. Original Power of Attorney (POA). [If Applicable]
  2. Affidavit to the effect that 'No Case' is/are pending in any court of law relating to RoC in Question; [Mandatory].
  3. Notarized Copy of Assignment Deeds of Licence, in case the proposed changes are consequential on assignment of Licences copyright; [Mandatory in respect of Col No. 11 And 12].
  4. Notarized copy of Assignment Deed/Partnership Deed/Dissolution Deed/Certificate of Incorporation etc; [Mandatory in respect of Col No. 11, 12 and 13].
  5. Copy of Extract of RoC. [Mandatory]

(List of the documents to be attached in pdf and Guidelines, please ensure that acrobat pdf is installed in your system).

Note: The documents uploaded shall not be password protected.