Supreme Court · 2012 INSC 200 · Decided 4 May 2012
Super Cassettes Industries LTD. v. Music Broadcast PVT. LTD.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2012 INSC 200 · [2012] 4 S.C.R. 209
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 4196/2012
- Decided
- 4 May 2012
- Bench
- ALTAMAS KABIR, S.S. NIJJAR, JASTI CHELAMESWAR (3-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Civil
- Acts & sections cited
- CPC Section 151
Headnote
Copyright Act, 1957 - s. 31(1)(b)- Powers under- Scope A B of - Power of Copyright Board - To pass ad interim order- C In a pending complaint u/s. 31 - Held: Section 31 contemplates final relief - The statute does not vest the Copyright Board power to grant interim order - compulsory licence during the pendency of the complaint would amount to final relief at the interim stage. D The question for consideration in the present appeals was whether on a complaint made to the Copyright Board uls. 31 of the Copyright Act, 1957, the said Board under Clause (b) of
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