Supreme Court · 2015 INSC 781 · Decided 15 October 2015
Krishika Lulla & ORS. v. Shyam Vithalrao Devkatia & ANR.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2015 INSC 781 · [2015] 12 S.C.R. 1056
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 258/2013
- Decided
- 15 October 2015
- Bench
- MADAN B. LOKUR, S.A. BOBDE (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 406, 420; CrPC Section 482
Headnote
Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 - s.482- Complaint c u/s. 63 of Copyright Act rlw. ss.406 and 420 of /PC -Alleging infringement of copyright of the title of the synopsis of a story - Process issued - Application u!s. 482 by the accused seeking quashing of the criminal proceedings, dismissed - s. 13, Copyright subsists in an original D literary work - The title does not qualify for being described as 'work' - The combination of two words of the title in question 'Desi Boys' also cannot be said to have anything original in it - These words do not qualify for being described as
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