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Copyright Act, 1957 Section 57

Author’s special rights.—2[

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Copyright Act, 1957 Section 57 is part of Copyright Act, 1957 - Author’s special rights.—2[. Read the section text below and explore Indian court judgments that cite it.

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Section Text

1) Independently of the author’s copyright and even after the assignment either wholly or partially of the said copyright, the author of a work shall have the right— (a) to claim authorship of the work; and (b) to restrain or claim damages in respect of any distortion, mutilation, modification or other act in relation to the said work 3*** if such distortion, mutilation, modification or other act would be prejudicial to his honour or reputation:

Provided that the author shall not have any right to restrain or claim damages in respect of any adaptation of a computer programme to which clause (aa) of sub-section (1) of section 52 applies.

Explanation.—Failure to display a work or to display it to the satisfaction of the author shall not be deemed to be an infringement of the rights conferred by this section.]

(2) The right conferred upon an author of a work by sub-section (1), 4***, may be exercised by the Section 58 - legal representatives of the author

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