The Copyright Act, 2004 was first enacted in 1988 to make provisions, inter alia, for the protection of creative works and the remedy and penalty for the infringement thereof. Sequel to the phenomenal growth in the creative industry, it became imperative to amend the Copyright Act. This has led to the enactment of the Copyright Act, 2022 (which repealed the 2004 Act) to enhance the protection of the rights of copyright owners and impose more reasonable penalties in cases of copyright infringement. 

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