What are the protections available to an author under the Copyright Act, 1957?

Section 13 of the Indian Copyright Act, 1957 deals with Protection to Authors. 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, modification or other acts in relation to the said work which is done before the expiration of the term of copyright if such distortion, mutilation, modification or other act would be prejudicial to his honour or reputation. Moral rights are available to the authors even after the economic rights are assigned. Copyright protects the rights of authors, i.e., creators of intellectual property in the form of literary, musical, dramatic and artistic works and cinematograph films and sound recordings. The following rights are protected: reproduce the work. issue copies of the work to the public. perform the work in public. communicate the work to the public. make cinematograph film or sound recording in respect of the work. make any translation of the work. make any adaptation of the work (conversion of dramatic work into non dramatic work, literary work into dramatic work, re-arrangement of literary or dramatic work, depiction in comic form or through pictures of a literary or dramatic work, transcription of musical work or any act involving rearrangement or alteration of an existing work and the making of a cinematograph film of literary or dramatic or musical work). In addition to all the rights applicable to a literary work, the owner of the copyright in a computer programme enjoys the rights to sell or give on hire or offer for sale or hire, regardless of whether such a copy has been sold or given on hire on earlier occasion.