Case Comment: Navigators Logistics Ltd v Kashif Qureshi & Ors

Pragya Chaturvedi
Apr 13, 2019
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By Pragya Chaturvedi

In Navigators Logistics v Kashif Qureshi, the Delhi High Court held that no copyright can subsist in a compilation in the absence of authorship of a natural person and application of skill and judgment by such person in creating the compilation. In a jurisdiction that does not provide protection for non-original databases and weak remedies for breach of confidentiality, the judgment raises several questions on the future of IP protection of Big Data in India.

The article can be accessed through the following link:

https://academic.oup.com/jiplp/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/jiplp/jpz044/5424110

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