Originality Under Copyright Law – What Do The Courts Say?

Copyright is the right which a person acquires in a work, which is the result of his intellectual labor. It is a special type of intellectual property that aims at protecting the fruit of a man's labor or skill from being misappropriated by someone else. It seeks to encourage authors, composers, and artists to create original works by rewarding them with the exclusive right for a specified period to reproduce the works for publishing and selling them to the public.

Now, S 13 of the Indian Copyright Act lists the works in which copyright subsists. It states as follows:

Subject to the provisions of this section and the other provisions of this Act, copyright shall subsist throughout India in the following classes of works, that is to say-