DEED OF ASSIGNMENT OF COPYRIGHT AND RELATED RIGHTS
This Deed is made at Chandigarh on 1 April 2026.
BETWEEN
Simran Kaur, of House No. 1120, Sector 38-B, Chandigarh 160036, PAN AKJPI4432R (the "Assignor");
AND
Sandhu Handicrafts Private Limited, of SCO 14, Sector 17-C, Chandigarh 160017, acting through Harleen Sandhu, Director (the "Assignee").
- 1. THE WORK
1.1 The work to which this Deed relates is: The illustrated pattern book "Phulkari Motifs of Punjab", 120 pages with 80 original drawings, created between 2023 and 2025. (the "Work"), together with its drafts, source files, artwork and all material that forms part of it.
1.2 The Assignor made the work alone, as its sole author, and not as an employee of anyone.
- 2. THE ASSIGNMENT
2.1 In return for the price in clause 3, the Assignor assigns to the Assignee, absolutely, the following rights in the Work: all the rights of the copyright owner in the work, including to reproduce, publish, adapt, translate, communicate to the public, and make copies in any form or medium, and to license others to do so.
2.2 The territory of the assignment is the whole world, and its duration is the whole period for which the copyright lasts, including any renewal or extension. The Parties state these expressly so that the periods and territory the law would otherwise read in do not apply. The Assignee's rights shall not lapse for want of use within any period, and no use is required of it.
2.3 The assignment includes the right to sue for any infringement of the Work, whether before or after this Deed, and to keep what is recovered. The Assignor shall give the Assignee the originals, files and information needed to use and protect the Work, and shall sign any further paper the Assignee reasonably asks for to register or enforce the rights, at the Assignee's cost.
2.4 The Assignor keeps the personal rights of an author that the law protects and does not give up, including the right to be named as the author where the law gives it and to object to a distortion or mutilation of the Work that would harm the Assignor's honour or reputation. The Assignee shall credit the Assignor as author in the usual way where it publishes the Work, and the Assignor will not use these rights to stop the Assignee's ordinary use and adaptation of the Work, to the extent the law permits.
- 3. PRICE
3.1 The Assignee shall pay the Assignor ₹1,50,000 (Rupees One Lakh Fifty Thousand only) for the assignment, on signing this Deed, by bank transfer, and the Assignor acknowledges receipt. No royalty is payable; the price is the whole payment. Where the law requires the Assignee to deduct tax at source, it shall deduct it and give the Assignor the certificate for it, and GST, if any applies to the Assignor's supply, is added at the rate in force.