The  copyright  means  the sole & exclusive  right   to publish  the   work  or  any substantial  part  thereof and or reproduction of the publication   or reproduction of the translation of the work as per  Section 14 of the copy right Act 1957 [D.S.G Sidhanti   versus Venkateshwara  publishing house, (1968) 1 An WR 323, 328].
There can be no copy right in works which have not yet come into existence. It can   subsist only in respect of works already   published or  composed. It may  attach upon each successive publication but work we have no present existence can not be the subject of copy right.
Copyright is incorporeal property-copy right is the right to prevent copyright, or issuing the copies of the work to the public or the right to prevent the making for sale of selling infringing   copies   of the work.  It  is incorporeal property distinguishable from physical  ownership  of the work in which copyright subsists. It is the   right to make the   copies of the  work, and to do  various other acts.
Author –  Section  2  (d)  of the copyright Act, 1957  defines  the meaning of the authors as the  person who  causes  the work to be created.  A person who merely suggests the idea of the work to author is not the author, nor even a joint author of the work.  A short hand  writer  who  takes down  the notes is not the author. Authorship is the organization of a meritorious production, embodying the author or the  thought of the author as well as the thought of the other, in an organized  and communicable  form and  bearing the  impress  of the distinctive  individuality  of  the  mind  which  produced it.
Copyright     shall   not   subsist  in  any   work   specified  in subsection (1), other than a work  to which the provision  of section 40 or section   41  apply unless in  the  case  of  the  published work, the work  is  first     published in India,  or  where  the  work  is  first published outside India, the author is at the date of such publication, or in a case  where the   author was   dead  at   that date, was at the time of his death, a citizen of India and in case  of  an unpublished work other than work of    architecture, the author   is   at the date of  the  making of the  work a  citizen of  India  or domiciled in India ; and in the case   of  work    of architecture, the  work is located  in India . In   the case of a work  of  joint authorship the  condition    conferring Copyright specified   in  this    sub-section  shall be  satisfied  by   all the author  of  the work.
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