Assignment of Rights

This occurs when you sell or bequeath your IP rights to someone else wholly or partially. An assignment of a right shall be valid if the agreement is in writing embodying all the terms and conditions governing their rights and obligations and is duly executed. In Raj Video Vision v. K Mohan Krishna, the producer of a Tamil film assigned all his rights except the rights of the Hindi version to a person in 1961. Later in 1981, he assigned the video rights in the film to Raj Video vision