Breathe easy, NSE. Your index isn't Star Wars

The regulator simply isn't ready to deal with the money laundering that may occur when a bank hands over direct market access software to a dodgy sub-account

Is the Nifty 50 a work of art – like Star Wars?

Over the coming weeks, the National Stock Exchange of India Ltd. will assert an intellectual property right over its popular equity benchmark. It's seeking an injunction against Singapore Exchange Ltd., which wants to start its own derivative based on publicly available settlement prices of Nifty futures contracts.
 

Such lawsuits are nothing new in the world of index providers and exchanges.

In 2006, the New York Mercantile Exchange failed to persuade both a US District Court and the Second Circuit Court that Intercontinental Exchange Inc. was violating the copyright of Nymex