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2016 Supreme(SC) 1181
SUPREME COURT OF INDIA
RANJAN GOGOI, N.V. RAMANA, JJ.
Relx India Pvt. Ltd. & Anr. - Appellants
Versus
Eastern Book Company & Ors. - Respondents
Civil Appeal No. 10245 of 2014
Decided On : 23-11-2016
Important Points
Subject
Publication Rights - Raw Judgments
Headnote
Publication Rights - Raw Judgments - Appellants allowed to publish, sell, and distribute raw judgments of the Supreme Court and other Courts along with their own notes and paraphrasing as per Eastern Book Company v. D.B. Modak
Fact of the Case:
The appellants sought permission to publish, sell, and distribute raw judgments of the Supreme Court and other Courts along with their own notes and paraphrasing.
Finding of the Court:
The court allowed the appellants to publish, sell, and distribute the raw judgments along with their own notes, as per the decision in Eastern Book Company v. D.B. Modak. The trial court was directed to expedite the trial.
Issues: Permission to publish raw judgments with additional notes and paraphrasing.
Ratio Decidendi: The court relied on the decision in Eastern Book Company v. D.B. Modak to allow the appellants to publish the raw judgments with their own notes and paraphrasing.
Final Decision: The appeal was disposed of with directions to allow the appellants to publish, sell, and distribute the raw judgments along with their own notes, and the trial court was directed to expedite the trial.
Advocate Appeared:
For the Appellants : Ms. Pratibha Singh, Mr. Vikas Mehta, Mr. Rajat Sehgal, Ms. Priyanka Khimani
For the Respondents: Mr. Rajeev Dutta, Mr. Awanish Sinha, Mr. S.K. Mohanty, Mr. Satya P. Sharan, Mr. K.V. Vishwanathan, Ms. Anitha Shenoy, Mr. Harshavardhan, Ms. Srishti Agnihotri, Mr. Dhananjay Bhaskar Roy, Mr. Raj Shekhar Rao
ORDER :
1. After hearing the learned counsels for the parties the appeal is disposed of with the following directions:
The appellants will be at liberty to publish, sell and distribute the raw judgments of the Supreme Court of India and other Courts obtained from whichever source along with their own head-notes, editorial notes, paraphrasing, explanatory notes, etc. as laid down in Eastern Book Company and others versus D.B. Modak and another [(2008) 1 SCC 1].
We further direct the learned trial Court to expedite the trial and conclude the same as expeditiously as possible.
2. The appeal is disposed of in the above terms. Interim order, if any, shall stand vacated.
