copyright works were created by the appellant's employees
and therefore, the appellant is the first owner of copyright in
these test databases ... these are original works entitled to
protection under the Copyright Act, 1957 . The test
23
databases contain extensive test results and an
illustrative extract
observations on the effect of amendment of Section 2(a)(v) of Copyright Act.
"Any reader having the time or wish ... might have a very good bearing whom applied to copyrights of computer programs and databases, but in relation to literary works, the sub-section does
prepared with the assistance of teachers
of defendant, therefore, no copyright could be claimed in
respect of such contents of the chart which were indeed ... Copyright Act defines the term
"Literary work" as under:
"literary work" includes computer programmes,
tables and compilations including computer
databases
conditions conferring copyright specified in this sub-section shall be satisfied by all the authors of the work.
(3) Copyright shall not subsist ... copyright in such work has been infringed.
(4) The copyright in a cinematograph film or a sound recording shall not affect the separate copyright
plaintiffs or parting with the Computer
Systems/equipments, emails, softwares, client
database and dealings details, technological know-now,
trade secrets and various other extremely confidential ... behalf of the Defendants, from infringing in any
manner the copyright in the literary work subsisting in
the documents, presentations, flow charts, algorithms,
coding sheets
Autograde International Private ... vs The State Of Karnataka on 2 December, 2015
Equivalent citations: AIR
X Corp vs Union Of India on 24 September, 2025
Author: M.Nagaprasanna
Bench: M
X Corp vs Union Of India on 30 June, 2023
Author: Krishna S Dixit
Bench
Ms (X) vs Internal Complaints Committee on 30 September, 2024
Author: M.G.S. Kamal
M/S Waters India Pvt Ltd vs Union Of India on 26 April, 2025
Author
