Bare ActsThe COPYRIGHT ACT, 1957

Section 57

Author’s special rights

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Author’s special rights.—3[(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 4*** if such distortion, mutilation, modification or other act would be prejudicial to his honour or reputation:

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