High Court of Allahabad | Decided: 16 July 1980 First Appeals No. 8 of 1975 & No. 9 of 1975 Bench: Division Bench of the High Court of Allahabad Citation: AIR 1981 All 200 | 1980 SCC OnLine All 444 Background Late Sri Ram Naresh Tripathi was an eminent Hindi scholar, poet and litterateur of
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The protection of computer programs under intellectual property law is one of the most consequential and contested questions in the history of modern legal systems. Software drives virtually every sector of the contemporary economy – from financial systems and medical devices to communications infrastructure and consumer entertainment. The legal framework that governs who owns software,
High Court of Delhi at New Delhi | Decided: 28 May 2009 RFA (OS) No. 25/2006 Bench: Division Bench of the High Court of Delhi Citation: 2009 (40) PTC 519 (Del) | 2009 SCC OnLine Del 1647 Background Microfibres Inc. is an American corporation engaged in the manufacture and commercial sale of upholstery fabrics, the
Music is among the oldest and most universal forms of human expression and it is also among the most legally complex categories of creative work that copyright law is called upon to protect. A single commercially released song involves, in the ordinary case, at least three distinct creative contributions – the musical composition created by
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High Court of Delhi at New Delhi | Decided: 29 July 2011 IA No. 15781/2008 & IA No. 3085/2009 in CS (OS) No. 2682/2008 Bench: Hon’ble Mr. Justice Manmohan Singh Citation: 2011 (48) PTC 49 (Del) Background Super Cassettes Industries Limited, popularly known as T-Series, is one of India’s largest music labels and film production
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Few creative works demand as much capital, coordinate as many individual contributions, or generate as much commercial activity as a cinematograph film. A feature film involves the labour of writers, directors, composers, lyricists, performers, cinematographers, editors, sound designers, visual effects artists and hundreds of others whose individual creative contributions are assembled, over months or years,
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High Court of Judicature at Bombay, Commercial Division | Decided: 23rd April, 2019 Notice of Motion (L) No. 197 of 2018 in Commercial IP Suit (L) No. 114 of 2018 and Notice of Motion (L) No. 198 of 2018 in Commercial IP Suit (L) No. 113 of 2018 Bench: S.J. Kathawalla, J. Citation: AIRONLINE 2019
High Court of Delhi at New Delhi | CS(OS) 1185/2006 & I.A. Nos. 6486/2006, 6487/2006, 7027/2006; CS(OS) 1996/2009 & I.A. No. 13692/2009 Background The Indian Performing Right Society Ltd., referred to throughout as IPRS, is a non-profit cooperative body incorporated in August 1969 with the object of monitoring, administering and enforcing the performing rights of
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Delhi High Court (Division Bench) | AIR 1985 Delhi 29 | 1 August 1984 | Avadh Behari Rohatgi, J. Background Penguin Books Ltd. of England, the plaintiff-appellant, is one of the world’s most recognized publishing houses. It held territorially exclusive licenses and assignments of copyright in 23 titles for the Indian market – including celebrated
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Kerala High Court | C.M.A. No. 329 of 1995 | 27 February 1996 | T.V. Ramakrishnan, J. Background The original drama at the centre of this dispute is Ningal Enne Communistakki (“Who Made You a Communist?”), written in 1952 by the celebrated Malayalam playwright Thoppil Bhasi while he was living in political hiding as an
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