Tagged “derivative-works”

Eastern Book Company v. D.B. Modak (2007): originality, copy-edited judgments, and the skill-and-judgment test

A two-Judge Bench of the Supreme Court held that EBC's copy-edited versions of judgments could attract copyright only where they bore the imprint of skill and judgment and a minimal degree of creativity. A digest of the originality threshold under section 13 of the Copyright Act 1957, the rejection of pure sweat-of-the-brow, and the line drawn between protectable and unprotectable editorial inputs.