A.M.KHANWILKAR
Urmi Juvekar Chiang – Appellant
Versus
Global Broadcast News Ltd. & anr. – Respondent
KHANWILKAR A.M., J:- Heard Counsel for both the sides at length. Perused all the relevant documents and pleadings on record.
2. This order will dispose of prayer for adinterin relief claimed by the plaintiff during the pendency of the Motion.
3. The plaintiff claims to be a reputed script-writer having scripted various films and various television serials. She also claims to have authored and/or directed and/or produced various documentary films. In substance, the grievance of the plaintiff against the defendants, on the basis of which, interim relief is claimed against them is on two grounds-
(a) Breach of Confidentiality by the defendants.
(b) Infringement of copyright of the plaintiff.
Both these causes are in relation to reproduction and adaptation in the format of the proposed television programme created by the plaintiff titled "Work in Progress", by the defendants by making the television programme by title "Summer Showdown" and proposing to broadcast the same on the CNN - IBN television news channel.
4. Some of the facts common to both these grounds as asserted in the Plaint are that, in or about November 2005, the plaintiff conceived an idea of a reality television progr
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