Cognisable and non bailable offence or not - An insight into the understanding of section 63 of the Copyright Act, 1957.

Cognisable offence status: Copyright infringement is cognisable and non-bailable, allowing criminal proceedings to continue.

The legal classification of copyright infringement offences depends on the imprisonment bracket in the Code's schedule: offences meeting the statutory threshold qualify as cognisable, while lesser-punishment offences are non-cognisable. Applied to the relevant copyright provisions, the correct legal consequence is to treat the infringing conduct as a cognisable and non-bailable offence, allowing FIR registration and investigation to proceed under the Code's procedures.