For the purposes of Section 23 of the Copyright Act, 1957, the identity of an author is deemed to have…

The Explanation to section 23 of the Copyright Act, 1957 deems an author's identity disclosed "if the identity of the author is disclosed publicly by both the author and the publisher or is otherwise established to the satisfaction of the Commercial Court by that author" (the Tribunals Reforms Act, 2021 substituted "Commercial Court" for "Appellate Board"). Disclosure by the publisher alone or a private record is not enough.