(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....
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...
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...
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...
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 DPIIT Committee’s Working Paper on Generative AI (“AI”) and Copyright proposes a mandatory blanket license permitting AI developers to use all lawfully accessed copyrighted works for training, coupled with a statutory remuneration right. The proposal suffers from three fundamental defects: it constructs remedial architecture without establishing that any...
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In Phonographic Performance Limited and Sonotek Cassettes Company v. State of Goa, the Bombay High Court heard a petition filed by Phonographic Performance Limited and Sonotek (collectively, for ease, “PPL”) under Article 226 of the Constitution, seeking to quash and set aside a circular issued on 30th January 2024...
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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...
Recently, a Navi Mumbai company faced a copyright infringement case for the unauthorized use of the Sailfin font. The case has been registered in Khandeshwar police station under the provisions of the Copyright Act, 1957, against a company and its owners for use of the Sailfin font without the...
