Lex Lata - The Law As It Exists

Objective & Scope of Industrial Employment (Standing Order) Act, 1946 Pre-History An Industrial worker has the right to know the terms and conditions under which he is employed and the rules of discipline which he is expected to follow. Before Industrial Employment (Standing Order) Act, 1946[Here onwards IESOA] condition of service of industrial employees were invariably ill- defined and were hardly ever known with even a slight degree of precession to the employees. – U.P State Electricity Board v. Hari Shankar Jain (1978) . The rule of services in Industries are not definitely set out so Industries have adopted Standing Order and rules to govern the day-to-day relation between the employers & workers. The act was enacted to curb the power of the employer to offer such conditions of services as would result in exploitation and bring about uniformity in conditions of services amongst the employees working in different industrial establishments in the same industry. Wh...

Rights of Authors and Others Introduction The author means ‘composer of a work, particularly literature’, but today a very wide definition is given to authors. Every author, composer, artist, photographer or producer has a right on the work produced by his intellect, which is known as ‘intellectual property of the author’ and the right is known as ‘copyright’. The right which a person acquires in a work, which is a result of his intellectual labour, is called as copyright [1] . The object of Copyright Act, 1957 is to protect the author of the copyright work from unlawful reproduction or exploitation of his work by others [2] .  Copyright according to Black’s Law Dictionary is the right in literary property as recognized and sanctioned by positive law. An intangible incorporable right granted to the author or originator of certain literary and artistic production whereby he is invested for a specific period with the sole and exclusive privilege of multiplying copies of t...