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CREA TIVEFIRST COPYRIGHT 101

The author of a work has the right to claim authorship of the work and to
restrain or claim damages in respect of any distortion, mutilation, modi cation
or other acts in relation to the said work if such distortion, mutilation, modi ca-
tion or other act would be prejudicial to his honour or reputation. Moral rights
are available to the authors even after the economic rights, that is to say the
bundle of rights conferred by copyright, are assigned.

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 moral rights of the author.

For example, moral rights would include right to get credits in a lm. It can also
be invoked if someone who makes a movie on the basis of a novel but substan-
tially changes the story or makes major distortion in the story line, which may
negatively affect the integrity of work of the original author.

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