(Zidd (Urdu/Hindi word) = insistence, persistence or doggedness.)
Judgments, especially of higher courts, are juggernauts capable of jamming future judgments of the lower courts (and sometimes even the similar stature courts). Aren’t they? After all, this is how Stare Decisis works in common law countries - precedents possess legal piety....
GUEST POST: SIDDHANT SANGHAVI: TEXT-TO-IMAGE WORKS: AI, HUMANS AND COPYRIGHT COMPLICATIONS
Lokesh Vyas -
AI-generated artwork has been on the rise for quite some time with varied experiments such as Walter Thompson’s The Next Rembrandt and Obvious’ Edmond De Balamy both of which required a sophisticated software specially designed for this purpose, a varied dataset and a collective of intellectuals all working towards...
IPRMENTLAW IN COLLABORATION WITH CREATIVE FIRST AND FICCI LAUNCHES HANDBOOK ON COPYRIGHT
Anushree Rauta -
We are pleased to announce that IPRMENTLAW in collaboration with Creative First and FICCI has launched its first handbook "Copyright 101- A Handbook on Copyright for Content Creators and Owners'.
Link to the handbook: Copyright 101_Handbook
The Handbook is a useful compendium for content creators and owners in the media and...
GUEST POST: SUDARSHAN MJ: LIGHTS, CAMERA, COPYRIGHT: CURTAINS CLOSE ON THE ISSUE OF COPYRIGHT OWNERSHIP IN THE SCREENPLAY OF SATYAJIT RAY’S FILM ‘NAYAK’
Anushree Rauta -
Recently, the Delhi High Court in RDB & Co. HUF vs. Harper Collins, summarily rejected the Plaintiff’s prayer to restrain the Defendant, i.e. Harper Collins, from novelising the screenplay of the popular Bengali film ‘Nayak’, which was written and directed by Satyajit Ray. Placing reliance on Section 13(4) of...
GUEST POST: DR. G.R. RAGHAVENDER: FUTURE OF INDIAN COPYRIGHT LAW IN THE FACE OF THE EMERGING DISRUPTIVE TECHNOLOGIES
Anushree Rauta -
Today, 21st June is the eleventh anniversary of the Copyright (Amendment) Act 2012 (Act 24 of 2012) coming into force after it was notified in the Gazette by the Central Government on June 21, 2012. It was earlier passed unanimously by the Indian Parliament on May 22, 2012, and...
THE IMPLICATIONS OF RDB & CO. V. HARPERCOLLINS INDIA JUDGEMENT AND THE POSSIBLE NEED TO REVISIT THE DEFINITION OF A ‘CINEMATOGRAPH FILM’
Siddhant Sanghavi -
On the 23rd of May, Justice C. Hari Shankar of the Delhi High Court while dealing with the matter of RDB and Co. v. Harper Collins India Pvt. Ltd. regarding the ownership of copyrights to the screenplay of 1996 film ‘Nayak’ held that the first owner of the copyright...