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CREA TIVEFIRST COPYRIGHT 101

Section 31 of the Copyright Act deals with compulsory licences of works
withheld from public. This section provides that if the owner of copyright in any
Indian work has refused the performance in public of the work and withheld the
work from the public or has refused communication to the public by broadcast
of the work recorded in sound recording, the Commercial Court may, on the
basis of a complaint received and after such inquiry as it may deem necessary,
direct the Registrar of Copyrights to grant to the complainant, a licence.

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