Supreme Court · 2001 INSC 359 · Decided 13 August 2001
Vicco Laboratories and ANR. v. Art Commercial Advertising PVT. LTD. and ORS.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2001 INSC 359 · [2001] SUPP. 1 S.C.R. 451
- Case number
- SPECIAL LEAVE PETITION (CIVIL) No. 6779/2000
- Decided
- 13 August 2001
- Bench
- S. RAJENDRA BABU, Y.K. SABHARWAL (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Civil
- Acts & sections cited
- Constitution Article 136
Headnote
B Copyrights Act, 1957-Section 17-Production of television serial for a fu:ed sum for a manufacturing company-Claim of ownership of copyrights in the serial and its title by the manufacturing company-Justification of- Hold, on facts and evidence on record, claim not justified. C Constitution of important question involved-Not to be interfered with. Petitioners, who are manufactures of ayurvedic pharmaceutical products, employed respondents I to 4 as their advertising agents for the D purpose of producing a television serial for Doordarshan. The respondents prepared a serial titled 'Yeh
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