Author’s Copyright and Moral Rights Associa...

Author’s Copyright and Moral Rights Associated with It under the Copyright Law in India

Author Name : Rahul Dhoble

INTRODUCTION

“Everyone has the right to the protection of the moral and material interests resulting from any scientific, literary or artistic production of which he is the author” [1]

When an artist creates, he expresses an opinion. Whether it is in the form of a painting a photograph, a motion picture or in any written form, that opinion is of the artist, by the artist, and must be protected. In this who and what entity financed or provided the means for its production should have no bearing and no relevance to the determination of ownership in the opinion produced. Moral rights are representative of social values concerning authorship, creativity and artistic work. They are based on a belief that artistic creation is something more than an attempt to earn a livelihood.