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2016 Supreme(Del) 2088

S.RAVINDRA BHAT, DEEPA SHARMA
BLUEBERRY BOOKS – Appellant
Versus
GOOGLE INDIA PVT. LTD. – Respondent


Advocates Appeared:
For the Appellant :Mrs. Pratibha M. Singh, Sr. Advocate with Ms. Suhasini Raura and Mr. Ashwin Kumar, Advocates.
For the Respondent:Mr. Rajiv Nayyar, Sr. Advocate with Mr. Abhishek Malhotra and Mr. Rajul Taneja, Advocates for Resp-1.
Mr. Sumit Attri, Advocate for Resp-2.
Mr. Manav Kumar, Advocate for Resp-3 & 4.
Ms. Gayatri Roy with Mr. Subhash Bhutoria and Mr. Satarupa Guja, Advocates for Resp-5 & 6.
Ms. Sneha Jain, Advocate for Resp-10.

JUDGMENT :

S. RAVINDRA BHAT, J.

1. A plaintiff prefers this interlocutory appeal aggrieved by the order of a learned single judge, whereby he accepted the application of some defendants (Defendant No. 1 filed IA No. 7706 of 2012, hereafter called "Google India", IA 7707 of 2012 filed by third Defendant, Research in Motion India Pvt. Ltd. ('RIMPL') and IA No. 13852 of 2012- by the tenth defendant, hereafter "Amazon") and directed that they should be deleted from the array of parties, in a copyright infringement suit. The plaintiff is hereby referred to as "Blueberry".

2. The suit alleged that in 2003, Blueberry published books series titled 'Moral Stories' Parts-I, II and III each containing four stories. Part-I contained the stories (i) Careless Tanu; (ii) The Merchant Learns A Lesson; (iii) Sejal's Gift for Soni and (iv) Selfish Monu. Part-II contained the stories (i) The Greedy Fisherman; (ii) A Flower Went for a Walk; (iii) How The Rainbow Was Formed and (iv) Two Good Friends and Part-III contained the stories (i) The Cunning Jackal; (ii) The Lazy Penguin; (iii) The Wicked Cub and (iv) Harry and Bob. Blueberry said that the stories contained in the books were its original literary

































































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