Ten Events And Entertainment vs Novex Communications Private Limited

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2023 Supreme(Del) 4455

C. HARI SHANKAR
Ten Events And Entertainment – Appellant
Versus
Novex Communications Private Limited – Respondent

Advocates appeared:
Mr. Rajshekhar Rao, Senior Advocate with Mr. Abhishek Malhotra, Mr. Rommel Khan, Dr. Mishra M. Kumar and Mr. Visakha Gupta, Advocates, for the Plaintiff.
Mr. Chander M. Lall, Senior Advocate with Mr. Jasdeep Singh Dhillon and Ms. Mohina Anand, Advocates for D-1.
Mr. Akhil Sibal, Senior Advocate with Mr. Ankur Sangal, Ms. Suchita Roy, Ms. Trisha Nag, Ms. Asavari Jain and Ms. Debashree Mukherjee, Advocates for D-2.
Mr. Vivek Chib, Senior Advocate with Ms Deepshikha Sarkar, Advocate for D-3.
Mr. Tejveer Singh Bhatia, Mr. Utsav Mukherjee and Mr. Sudeep Chatterjee, Advocates for D-4.
Mr. Vokram Grover and Mr. Harish Chauhan, Advocates for D-6.
Mr. Sanjeev Sindhwani, Senior Advocate with Ms. Rajeshwari H and Mr. Deepanshu Nagar, Advocates For D-7.
Mr. Sumit Goel, Ms. Sonal Gupta, Ms. Swati Bhardwaj and Mr. Abhishek Thakral, Advocates for D-8.

Table of Content
1. plaintiff's background and licensing issues. (Para 1 , 2)
2. existence of threat for legal proceedings. (Para 3 , 4 , 6)
3. arguments on maintainability of the suit. (Para 10 , 11 , 12)
4. rights under section 60 of the copyright act. (Para 13 , 27 , 33)
5. conclusion and dismissal of the interim relief. (Para 215 , 216)

JUDGMENT

C. Hari Shankar, J.

1. The present suit has been instituted by the plaintiff Ten Events & Entertainment, involved in providing event management services, under Section 60^1[60. Remedy in the case of groundless threat of legal proceedings. - Where any person claiming to be the owner of copyright in any work, by circulars, advertisements or otherwise, threatens any other person with any legal proceedings or liability in respect of an alleged infringement of the copyright, any person aggrieved thereby may, notwithstanding anything contained in Section 34 of the Specific Relief Act, 1963 (47 of 1963), institute a declaratory suit that the alleged infringement to which the threats related was not in fact an infringement of any legal rights of the person making such threats and may in any such suit -

(a) obtain an injunction against the continuance o

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2023 Supreme(Del) 4455

C. HARI SHANKARTen Events And Entertainment – AppellantVersusNovex Communications Private Limited – Respondent

C. HARI SHANKAR
Ten Events And Entertainment – Appellant
Versus
Novex Communications Private Limited – Respondent