Copyright Ordinance, 1962 — section 70

70. False attribution or authorship, etc..—Whosoever

(1)inserts or affixes the name of any person in or on a work of which that person is not the author, or in or on a reproduction of such a work, in such a way as to imply that such person is the author of the work; or

(2)publishes or sells or lets for hire, or by way of trade offers, exposes for sale or hire, or by way of trade exhibits in public a work in or on which the name of a person has been inserted or affixed in such a way as to imply that such person is the author of the work, or the publisher of the work, who to his knowledge is not the author or the publisher, as the case may be, of such work; or

(3)does any of the acts mentioned in clause (2) in relation to, or distributes, reproductions of a work, being reproductions in or on which any person’s name has been inserted or affixed in such a way as to imply that such person is the author of the work, who to his knowledge is not the author of such work, or performs in public, or broadcasts the work as being the work of a particular author, who to his knowledge is not the author of such work; shall be punishable with 1[imprisonment which may extend to two years, or with fine which may extend to one hundred thousand rupees], or with both. 1 Subs. by Act No. XX of 1992, s. 20. 1