These days, one faces a plethora of copyright issues pertaining
to moral rights of authors, a historic and significant aspect of
copyright law in almost every part of the world. The fundamentals
of copyright law are at cross-roads with the concept of moral
rights.
Moral rights specifically are the personal rights of an author
in context of the integrity of their works in order to prevent
revision or alteration regardless of the ownership. They offer an
interesting counterpoint to the powerful economic considerations
that dominate modern copyright discourse – and, perhaps, the
prospect of new approaches to the resolution of copyright
conflicts. The evolution of a moral rights regime under the Indian
Copyright Act, 1957 has been gradual, interactive and
author-friendly. The British colonial government in India
introduced the Indian Copyright Act, 1847 which offered protection
to author's works by providing exclusive rights to their
creative works, hitherto unknown in
