There can be no monopoly over the running of a storytelling platform; copyright vests in the expression of an idea but not in the idea itself.
This was encapsulated in the Delhi High Court ruling, which put an end to the copyright infringement lawsuit filed by Humans of Bombay (HOB), India’s largest storytelling platform owned by Karishma Mehta, against a similar platform called People of India (POI) on October 11, 2023. In its lawsuit, HOB alleged that POI copied its business model and content. Mehta began HOB in 2014, while POI was launched a few years later.