Allowing an appeal in Akuate Internet Services Pvt Ltd & Anr v Star India Pvt Ltd & Anr, a two-judge bench of Delhi High Court ruled that telecom operators and content providers could not be prevented from disseminating ball-by-ball or minute-by-minute score updates of cricket matches through SMS alerts. Observing that “one can ‘monetize’ or license only that over which one has property rights”, the court held that there were no exclusive property or other such rights in match information, or hot news, as claimed by Star India.
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