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Under Section 9 of the RTI Act, 2005, a Public Information Officer is empowered to reject a request for information where:
Answer & Solution
Correct answer: D.
1. Section 9 of the RTI Act creates a stand-alone ground for rejection where disclosure would infringe copyright.
2. The copyright must subsist in a "person", not the State — the State's own copyright is no bar to disclosure under the Act.
3. This is a narrower limb than Section 8(1)(d) on commercial confidence; Section 9 looks only at copyright infringement.
4. The number of applications, the size of the expenditure, and the availability from commercial databases are irrelevant under the Act.
_Source: ICSI CS Executive Paper 1 (Jurisprudence, Interpretation & General Laws) — Lesson 16: Right to Information Act, 2005, pp. 391-405._
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