ISSUE:
Whether Maulana Azad was the sole author of the book ‘India Wins Freedom’?
RULE:
According to the Copyright Act, 1957, Joint Authorship is “when more than one author creates work with the intention of their contributions being merged into inseparable or interdependent parts of a unitary whole”.
In the event of Joint Authorship, the authors will be regarded as co-owners of the copyright that subsists in that work.
The consent of the dead heir's legal representatives is required when there are joint authors and one of them is deceased.