"Sometimes a good idea does not come to Idea," Abhishek Manu Singhvi quipped, arguing in the Delhi High Court last Tuesday for Star India Pvt Ltd, as the company sought to claim rights over Cricket Scores, looking to overturn a judgement that brought Cricket scores into the public domain after 2 minutes. Over an hour and a half yesterday, Singhvi put forth a strong case for STAR, claiming that the delivery of Cricket scores over mobile, without giving STAR India a share, was dishonest. Repeatedly, Singhvi said that the copyright argument which is likely to be put forth by the opposing parties (and on the basis of which they won the case against STAR earlier), is a "straw man" argument, placed only to be shot down. "I am not asserting rights in the work, or the rights in performance. The…
