Landmark case · Intellectual Property Law · Semester 4

Eastern Book Company v. D.B. Modak

(2008) 1 SCC 1 · Supreme Court of India

Copy-edited Supreme Court judgments attract a thin copyright in original skill and judgment, not in the raw text of the judgment.

From topic

Subsistence, originality and the idea–expression dichotomy — Unit I, Intellectual Property Law.

Related sections:

Copyright Act, 1957, 13 — Works in which copyright subsists
Copyright Act, 1957, 14 — Meaning of copyright
Copyright Act, 1957, 16 — No copyright except as provided
Copyright Act, 1957, 17 — First owner of copyright