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IP · Business · Tax — for India's makers

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Protect your work, register your business, and handle your tax — built for Indian musicians, artists, writers and creators. Free guidance, a private on-device tax vault, and vetted legal partners when you want it done for you.

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Tell us what you made and we'll show exactly what protects it under Indian law — the right, the cost, the timeline. No jargon.

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₹500
copyright govt fee per work
0 uploads
tax docs never leave your device
100%
transparent partner pricing
Indian law
every guide, every figure

Learn

Free, practical guides under Indian law. No signup, no paywall. Educational information — not legal advice.

Assistant

Ask in plain language. Answers come from our Learn library — free information, cited to the relevant guide.

Services

When you'd rather have it done for you. Filings are executed by our vetted partner law firms, CA & CS practices — you see the government fee and the professional fee separately, always.

Pricing = actual government fee + partner professional fee (market rate + our 25% platform premium, which funds vetting, tracking and support). GST at 18% applies on the professional fee. Government fees shown for individuals/startups where slabs differ.

* Professional fee includes the CopyrightNow platform premium. Stamp duty and state-specific charges, where applicable, are billed at actuals. Fees indicative as of July 2026; confirmed in your engagement letter before any payment.

Tax Vault

Keep everything you need at tax time — bank statements, royalty statements, invoices, Form 16A — encrypted on this device only. We run no server for this. Delete everything, any time, permanently.

🔒 Vault locked. Documents are encrypted with a key derived from your passphrase — we never see it and cannot recover it.

Tax estimate — FY 2025-26 (AY 2026-27)

Compare both regimes on your creator income. Uses current slabs, ₹12L rebate, 44ADA presumptive option and advance-tax schedule.

Enter your numbers and calculate — the lower-tax regime gets highlighted.

Security & Compliance

Built privacy-first, because your unreleased masters and bank statements are nobody's business — including ours.

How your data is handled

  • Tax Vault is local-only. Documents are encrypted with AES-256-GCM using a key derived from your passphrase (PBKDF2, 250,000 iterations) and stored in your browser's IndexedDB — on this device, never on a server.
  • We cannot read or recover your vault. The passphrase and derived key never leave your device; there is no "forgot passphrase" backdoor by design.
  • Deletion is real deletion. "Delete everything" destroys the entire local database including the key-check record. There is no server copy to linger.
  • No trackers, no third-party scripts. A strict Content-Security-Policy blocks all external connections. The Learn library and assistant run entirely offline.
  • Service requests share only what you type. When you request a paid service, only the details you enter are sent — and only when you choose to send them — to our partner desk. Vault contents are never attached automatically.

Legal & regulatory posture

  • DPDP Act, 2023: we practice data minimisation by architecture — the most sensitive data (financial documents) is never collected, so most fiduciary obligations don't attach to it. For service requests we act as a data fiduciary: purpose-limited use, consent at the point of sharing, deletion on request.
  • Advocates Act, 1961 & BCI rules: CopyrightNow is a technology platform, not a law firm, and does not practice law. Legal work is performed by independent partner advocates, patent agents, CAs and CSs under their own professional responsibility. Our fee is a platform/technology charge, disclosed separately.
  • Not legal or tax advice: the Learn library and assistant provide general information under Indian law. Your situation may differ — engagements with partners include professional advice; the free tier does not.
  • Consumer Protection (E-Commerce) Rules, 2020: all-inclusive pricing shown before you commit, grievance contact published, no dark patterns.
  • GST: 18% applies on our professional/platform fees and is shown before checkout; government fees are collected at actuals.

Your controls

  • Lock the vault any time — the key is wiped from memory instantly.
  • Delete individual documents, or everything, permanently — no grace period, no soft delete.
  • Use the entire free tier without creating an account or sharing any personal data.