Mint reports that the Delhi high court issued a stay order preventing e-Eighteen.com Ltd from publishing a column that HT Media Ltd claimed was written by its journalists and originally appeared on 3 October in Mint and its website http://www.livemint.com.

The stay order, granted in the absence of e-Eighteen.com, came after HT Media filed a suit for infringement of copyright on 8 October. In the suit, HT Media, which publishes Mint, said that a Mark To Market column titled “Sensex 2007=Nasdaq 1998” and written by staff columnists Manas Chakravarty and Mobis Philipose, was copied verbatim and reproduced by e-Eighteen.com on its website http://www.moneycontrol.com without a licence or formal consent.

In July, HT Media took similar legal action against EXIM India that copied articles from Mint without permission and a similar interim injunction was passed by the Delhi high court. That suit is pending.