Copyright

(Please Note: The issues and arguments presented here are for academic discussion. They do not reflect any personal stance or opinion of IPRMENTLAW). Recently in Dipak Ranjan Mukherjee v. Ministry of Commerce & Industry certain information was requested under the Right to Information Act, 2005, regarding compliance records, government letters...

TAKEAWAYS ABOUT SOFTWARE COPYRIGHTABILITY FROM WHAT TRANSPIRED AT THE U.S. SUPREME COURT *Long post ahead* PART 1: Software Copyright – Basic concept and background PART 2: Analysis of the Google v. Oracle oral arguments at the US Supreme Court. PART 1: SOFTWARE COPYRIGHTS Turn back to 1980, it is a new day, in...

I am pleased to bring to you our next guest post by Anusha Das, a final year student at Rajiv Gandhi National University of Law, Punjab. Anusha has keen interest in copyright, trademark and media laws and enjoys keeping close tabs on developments in the field.  In the course...

The Delhi High Court’s recent decision in Samir Kasal v. Prashant Mehta delved into the question of copyrightability of cricket. It also delved into the legal principles of breach of confidentiality, while also demotivating plaintiff’s intention to cause harm to the defendants by approaching the Court at the nick...

By Hiral Chheda UPDATE: ZEE ENTERTAINMENT ENTERPRISES LIMITED V. MUSICAL.LY, INC. & ORS. In a recent development, Zee Entertainment Enterprises Limited (“Zee”) has filed a suit in the High Court of Delhi against the popular Chinese video content and online sharing APP ‘Musical.ly, Inc.’ (“Musical.ly”). Zee has sought for a...

In my previous post here, I had covered details of the legal notice issued by Mr. Javed Akhtar to Armaan Malik, Amaal Malik and T Series in relation to the recreated version of the song ‘Ghar Se Nikalte Hi’. In this post, I shall be analysing the legal position on...

The Bombay High Court vide its order dated May 22, 2020 refused to grant any ad-interim reliefs to the plaintiffs Sameer Wadekar and Mahesh Gosavi in their copyright infringement claim against Netflix, Red Chillies, director and writer  of the Series, where the plaintiffs claimed that the web series infringed...

In the past two years, the Central Government has slowly but steadily moved towards the decriminalisation of offences based on industry feedback that antiquated laws hamper the ease of doing business in India. There is also a school of thought that decriminalising certain economic offences will reduce the immense...

Introduction On 8th October 2023, NRI author George Thundiparambil filed a lawsuit against the team behind the novel “Barroz - Guardian of D’ Gama’s Treasure”, asserting that both the novel and forthcoming 3D film of the same name, infringed on his copyrighted work MAYA. The lawsuit has been filed in...

The distribution of royalties to the tune of INR 13 crores by IPRS to its author members recently made headlines. It also gave rise to a lot of questions and speculations on why would PPL make royalty payments to IPRS. I was personally surprised since I was under the...