In Burlington Home Shopping Pvt Ltd v Rajnish Chibber (Delhi High Court, 1995), a former employee used…

R C Lahoti J held that a collection of customer addresses "developed by any one by devoting time, money labour and skill" is a literary work in which copyright subsists, and restrained the defendant from using the customer list. India has no special statute on databases, and the court did not treat the compiled addresses as unprotectable public facts.