The copyrightability of databases has been settled by the Supreme Court in Eastern Book Company v. DB Modak. Here, the question was whether the petitioner, a company which created databases of Supreme Court cases (which are in the public domain) could claim copyright protection for their databases. It was held by the Court that the petitioner’s input of independent skill, labour and capital, in editing and arranging the information as well as adding inferences from it in the form of headnotes, resulted in the database being a copyrightable work.