law: Copyright Act, 1957 
  45. Entries in Register of Copyrights - 
  (1) The author or published of, or the owner
  
  of or other person interested in the copyright in, any work may make an
  
  application in the prescribed form accompanied by the prescribed fee to the
  
  Registrar of Copyrights for entering particulars of the work in the Register of
  
  Copyrights.
  [(Note: Added by Act 23 of 1983, S.16
  
  (w.e.f. 9-8-1984) Provided that in respect of an artistic work which in
  
  used or is capable of being used in relation to any goods, the application
  
  shall include a statement to that effect and shall be accompanied by a
  
  certificate from the Registrar of Trade Marks referred to in Section 4 of the
  
  Trade and Merchandise Marks Act, 1958 (43 of 1958), to the effect that no trade
  
  mark identical with or deceptively similar to such artistic work has been
  
  registered under than Act in the name of, or that no application has been made
  
  under that Act for such registration by, any person other than the applicant.]
  (2) On receipt of an applicant in respect of
  
  any work under sub section (1), the Registrar of Copyrights may, after holding
  
  any such inquiry as he may deem fit, enter the particulars of the work in the
  
  Register of Copyrights.