Copyright and Related Rights Act, 2000

False attribution of work.

113.—(1) A person has the right not to have a work falsely attributed to him or her as author.

(2) The right conferred by subsection (1) is infringed by a person where he or she—

(a) sells, rents or lends, or offers or exposes for sale, rental or loan,

(b) imports into the State, otherwise than for his or her private and domestic use,

(c) in the course of a business, trade or profession, has in his or her possession, custody or control, or

(d) makes available to the public,

a work, or a copy of a work, in or on which there is a false attribution, knowing or having reason to believe that the attribution is false.

(3) The right conferred by subsection (1) is infringed by a person where he or she—

(a) sells, rents or lends, or offers or exposes for sale, rental or loan,

(b) imports into the State, otherwise than for his or her private and domestic use,

(c) in the course of a business, trade or profession, has in his or her possession, custody or control, or

(d) makes available to the public,

a work which has been altered as being the unaltered work of the author, or a copy of such a work as being a copy of the unaltered work of the author, knowing or having reason to believe that the work or the copy of the work has been altered.

(4) This section applies where a work is falsely represented as being an adaptation of the work of a person in the same manner as it applies where a work is so represented as being the work of a person.

(5) In this Part “attribution”, in relation to a work, means a statement, express or implied, as to who is the author of the work.