Thomson
Reuters, the multinational information conglomerate based on New York along
with its Indian operations- Westlaw India and Indlaw have been restrained by an
ad interim injunction from infringing the Copyrights of EBC in their
law report "Supreme Court Cases" known as SCC.
EBC's
right over head notes and editorial notes in SCC were earlier upheld by the
Supreme Court in Eastern book company v D B Modak
In a lawsuit
filed against Thomson Reuters / Westlaw India / Indlaw, the Lucknow
District Court Judge, has passed an Interim Injunction on
22/8/2012 restraining the defendants, their
assignee's, business franchises, licensees, distributors, agents etc
from selling, distributing or otherwise make available to people either as CD-
ROM's or through their website or any other means which would infringe the
copyright of SCC during the pendency of the suit.
The
learned judge after taking into account the affidavit filed by EBC and the
contentions raised by them felt that there is a prima facie case as well as
balance of convenience in favour of the plaintiff due to
"exact tallying" of editorial notes by the defendants in their
online journals
14th
September has been set out as the date for filing written statements and
framing issues.
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