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UPHOLDING THE RIGHTS OF SINGERS ARGUING FOR (I) A BROAD AND BENEFICIAL INTERPRETATION OF PERFORMERS RIGHTS AS WELL AS (II) ACCORDING  JOINT AUTHORSHIP TO SINGERS IN MUSICAL WORKS. I am writing this post in light of the Patiala House Court Judgment in the case of Sushila v. Hungama Digital Media Entertainment...
(Drafted by Lokesh Vyas, Angad Makkar and Akshat Agrawal -contributors to IPRMENTLAW. Special thanks to Anushree Rauta and the whole IPRMENTLAW team for their beautiful balancing ideas.) Note: The article offers a lot of paradoxes to understand IP and the role of fair use in it, so read it carefully...
The Copyright Office vide public notice dated October 27, 2021, notified that the All India Film Chamber of Commerce (AIFCC) has filed an application for registration as a copyright society under Section 33 of the Copyright Act, 1957 for carrying out business of issuing or granting license in respect...
(This post has been co-authored by Akshat Agrawal and Angad Singh Makkar) The long-standing litigation between Solid Oak Sketches (“Plaintiff”) and 2K Games & Take-Two Interactive Software (“Defendants”) was resolved (for the time-being) by a District Court of the Southern District of New York, through its order dated 26 March...
About Author: Keshab Roy Choudhury is a fourth year student at Jindal Global Law School, Sonipat. He is interested in IP and competition law. I. Introduction: The WIPO has recognized the importance of leveraging the power of IP to protect the commercial interests of the various participants in the...
For those interested, here is a transcript of the full oral arguments that transpired at the US Supreme Court on 7/10/2020 and here is an audio of the same. If you wish to briefly understand my perspective on US software copyrights, check out Part 1. BRIEF BACKGROUND TO THE DISPUTE This...
NLSIU- IMI Roundtable Communiqué September 26, 2019 The NLSIU-IMI Roundtable on Unlocking Fair Value to Stakeholders took place in National Law School of India University (“NLSIU”) on September 5, 2019. The Roundtable consisted of stakeholders from the Media and Entertainment industry in India, including esteemed experts from International Federation of the Phonographic...
Whether the publication of bare Acts, an exact text of a particular law, by private parties amounts to an infringement of the government's copyright? is the question in which the Supreme Court has sought response from Central government in an appeal filed against the Delhi High Court Order in...
(This post is co-authored with Sneha Jain, Partner, Saikrishna & Associates) In Part 3 of the Series, we explored the output side of things - showing how if the output generated by the Generative AI model is substantially similar or a trivial alteration, or an adaptation in a different format...
The Telangana High Court, in a recent decision titled M/S Super Cassettes Industries Private Limited v. Nandi Chinni Kumar and Ors., has upheld the concept of “life rights” as elements of copyright- and  in fact, upheld an order for an injunction against the Appellant’s (hereinafter, “Defendant”) film, for violating...

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