Madras HC upholds Constitutional validity of S. 18 of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises Development Act, 2006 [Read Judgment]

The High Court of Madras has upheld the Constitutional validity of Section 18 of the Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises Development Act, 2006.The Court was hearing a petition filed by M/s. Refex Energy Limited. The company had placed three work orders with the respondent, M/s. Passive Infra Projects P. Limited for the supply of Galvanized Steel Structures/Solar Module Mounting Structures. Subsequent disagreements led to the filing of a claim petition under Section 18 of the MSMED Act, 2006...

Google Book Scanning Project: Author’s Guild approaches US Supreme Court [Read Petition]

American organization for writers, Authors Guild has petitioned the US Supreme Court, seeking review of the Court of Appeals ruling which had upheld the Google book scanning project as legal.In October last year, US Appeals Courts had affirmed the judgment by the Court below, and held that Google’s unauthorized digitizing of copyright-protected works, creation of a search functionality, and display of snippets from those works are non-infringing fair uses. You may read more about the ruling...

No Copyright subsists in the "title" of a Literary Work: Supreme Court [Read Judgment]

The Supreme Court in a landmark judgment held that no copyright subsists in the title of a literary work. The Hon'ble Apex Court bench comprising of Justices Madan B Lokur and S.A. Bobde was considering a criminal appeal preferred by Krishika Lulla and others against the order of Bombay High Court refusing to quash a complaint and process issued under Section 63 of the Copyright Act, read with Sections 406 and 420 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860.The complainant Shyam...