Copyright protects original expression of ideas expressed in some tangible medium by conferring economic and moral rights. Moral right always vests with the author of the work. Moral right is non-transferable and never exhaust. It gives recognition to the author for his contribution to knowledge domain. The economic right provides an author exclusive right to prohibit others from making copies of his work without authorization. This is a transferable right. The economic right provides the owner to win his bounty by permitting others to make copies of his copyright protected work.

Berne Convention made automatic copyright protection provision free from registration obligation. Though Indian Copyright law obeys automatic registration free copyright concept of Berne Convention as a Member Country, retains copyright registration system under the Copyright Act, 1957.

There are provisions of civil and criminal remedies in the Copyright Act, 1957 for curbing the evil of piracy and other infringement of copyright..

• It should not be forgotten that the Framers intended copyright itself to be the engine of free expression. By establishing a marketable right to the use of one’s expression, copyright supplies the economic incentive to create and disseminate ideas.
  ~ Justice O’Conner in Harper & Row Publishers, Inc. v National Enters., 471US 539 (1985)
  

• Authors are an integral part of the cultural heritage of any nation. The authorship is a matter of fact. It is history. Knowledge about authorship not only identifies the creator, it also identifies his contribution to national culture. It also makes possible to understand the course of cultural development in a country. Linked to each other, one flowing out from other, right of integrity ultimately contributes to the overall integrity of the cultural domain of a nation. The cultural heritage would include the artist whose creativity and ingenuity is amongst the valuable cultural resource of a nation. Through the telescope of section 57 it is possible to legally protect the cultural heritage of India through the moral rights of the artist.
  ~ Amarnath Sehgal v. Union of India, 2005 (30) PTC Del. 263