copyright of plaintiff as defendant has not obtained clearance from
various departments including IT Department of plaintiff and defendant
has in his possession copyright database ... plaintiff restraining defendants in CS (OS) 850/2013 from
using copyright database of plaintiff.
20. It is stated that plaintiff was constrained to send legal
plaintiff is that the present case
involves unregistered copyright of the plaintiff in the database
developed by it.
26. Learned counsel for the plaintiff ... discussed in preceding paragraphs, the computer
database constitutes literary work upon which copyright can be
claimed by the author and the employer shall
case of the defendants that there can be no
copyright in customer database, accounts information,
airway drawings, airway bills templates etc.
21. The plaintiff, save ... also enquired about the particulars of other
works/databases and in which also copyright and
confidentiality was claimed. No answer was forthcoming.
Every customer list
Copyright Act, 1957 and also included in the
definition of literary work as per Section-2(o) of the Copyright Act, 1957
respectively stated ... includes computer
programmes, tables and compilations including computer
databases.
Section 51 and Section 62(2) of Copyright Act read as under :-
Section
Copyright Act .
7. Author's Right: The Copyright Act protects the author's
economic and moral rights in the copyrighted work as stated ... Unknown Persons
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compilations including computer databases. Section 13 provides
the categories of work in which the copyright subsists which
includes original literary work
Copyright Act . Computer programs are included
in the definition of literary work under the Copyright Act .
5. Author's Right: The Copyright Act protects ... programs, tables and
compilations including computer databases. Section 13 provides
the categories of work in which the copyright subsists which
includes original literary work
under Section 2(o)
read with Section 13(1)(a) of the Copyright Act,1957. The Plaintiffs asserted
that the computer software, as well ... employees of Plaintiffs.
Consequently, Plaintiffs had become the owner of the copyright vested in the
aforementioned literary works within the meaning of Section
through
its book violated the said copy right or not.
31. For copyright protection, all literary works have to be original
as per Section ... compilations including computer
databases. For the purposes of the Act, Section 14(1) enumerates what
shall be a copyright which is an exclusive right, subject
accused persons have infringed the copyright of the
Complainant Company which is punishable under Section 63 of he
Copyright Act, 1957 .
Investigation ... Kakira in the form of CD for the
Kakira Project and Kakira Database in the form of another CD. He was
also found in possession
meeting was scheduled for
26.09.2023 for discussing the copyright infringement matter.
Alleged accused no.1 came for the meeting at the office of the
complainant ... complainant
company software through which anyone can freely access the
database of the complainant company. Alleged accused no.1 also
demanded Rs.50 lakhs from
