Justice Singh has held that infringement of copyright is indisputably a serious matter as it involves valuable rights of owners of copyright and significance of the protection and enforcement of such rights cannot be diminished, merely due to the growth of technology, which has made infringers easy to hide and conceal their illegal activities.
The Court said that the definition of “infringing copy” is broad enough to cover electronic copies which are circulated on Telegram channels.
Electronic devices including smart phones, computers, servers and such other devices, which permit copies to be made and to be disseminated, would undoubtedly fall within the said definitions and this is also clear from the fact that Section 14(1)(a) specifically includes reproduction by “electronic means”, the judge said.
Source: Barandbench
