https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=262948 Delhi HC held that match information and contemporaneous score updates are facts, not copyright subject matter, and Section 16 of the Copyright Act bars any wider common law claim to exclusivity outside the statutory scheme. The plaintiffs could not convert factual sports information into a proprietary right through the hot news doctrine, unfair competition, or unjust enrichment. The Court further held that foreign hot news principles could not be imported to create copyright-like protection, unfair competition could not restrain publication of facts, and the unjust enrichment claim did not justify interim injunctive relief on the pleaded case. The interim injunction was therefore unsustainable. en-us Fri, 30 Aug 2013 00:00:00 +0530 Thu, 03 Jul 2025 10:59:00 +0530 TaxTMI RSS Generator https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=262948 Delhi HC held that match information and contemporaneous score updates are facts, not copyright subject matter, and Section 16 of the Copyright Act bars any wider common law claim to exclusivity outside the statutory scheme. The plaintiffs could not convert factual sports information into a proprietary right through the hot news doctrine, unfair competition, or unjust enrichment. The Court further held that foreign hot news principles could not be imported to create copyright-like protection, unfair competition could not restrain publication of facts, and the unjust enrichment claim did not justify interim injunctive relief on the pleaded case. The interim injunction was therefore unsustainable. Case-Laws Companies Law Fri, 30 Aug 2013 00:00:00 +0530 https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=262948