imitated the same in his film and thus
committed an act of piracy as to result in violation of the
copy right of the plaintiff ... conclusion that the
defendant is guilty of an act of piracy. 1249 A-C]
3. One of the surest and the safest test to determine
intellectual property rights and business on account of various forms of copyright piracy. A brief description of common methods of copyright infringement employed in relation ... Page 2382
6. It is stated that there is another form of piracy that is assuming great significance in the information age is that
author, namely 'Keerthana Pakshikal'. Accusing the
defendants of piracy, the suit was laid.
R.F.A.240/2004. 2
3. The first defendant ... exploitation of his art by another person and copy right
discourages piracy of the art and not the piracy of the ideas
of the author
exploitation of his art by others. What is frowned at is piracy of the art or the work of the artist and not the piracy ... Desai have been copied by the defendants or that there is any piracy in regard to art of Kanu Desai in any of those ornamental
manners, the source being common, similarities
are bound to occur and no piracy can thereby be alleged. The images of gods
and goddesses and religious ... some variations
here and there, the defendant would be guilty of piracy. And the surest test to
determine such substantial and material copy
business. He submits that defendants committed and continues to commit infringement and piracy of plaintiffs registered design. On noticing this, plaintiffs by their Advocate ... infringement of plaintiffs copyright in the registered designs and are acts of piracy within the meaning of section 22 of Designs
coincidences by themselves cannot lead to an
irresistible inference of plagiarism or piracy. Take for
instance the great poet and dramatist Shakespeare
most of whose ... however must be taken to see whether the
defendant has merely disguised piracy or has actually
reproduced the original in a different form, different
tone
however, must be taken to see whether the defendant has merely disguised piracy or has actually reproduced the original in a different form, different tone ... conclusion that the defendant is guilty of an act of piracy.
One of the surest and safest tests to determine whether or not there
applied to determine whether use of a design would amount to piracy under Section 22 of the Designs Act 2000 would be:
(i)whether ... design on the ground of infringement and/or piracy.
23. Mr.Raman submitted that the learned single Judge fell in error in holding that four
infringing hair-pin was held as piracy of the plaintiff's invention with the following observations:-
"The inventor says ... indeed the only sure way to find out whether there is piracy. This is what was done in the hair-pin case, above-referred
