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...
(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...
GOVERNMENT CALLS FOR TWO BACK TO BACK MEETINGS TO DISCUSS ISSUES RELATING TO COPYRIGHT SOCIETIES
Anushree Rauta -
The last week of 2019 saw some action from the Government’s end on an otherwise neglected sector.
The Ministry of Commerce and Industry through Department for promotion of Industry and Internal Trade vide its notice dated December 24, 2019 called for a meeting in Delhi on December 27, 2019.
The invitees...
THE CONCEPT OF ARTISTS RE-SALE RIGHTS
Artist Re-sale rights or Droit De Suite, as known in French terminology, is both an example of an economic right as well as an extension of the personhood theory of Copyright law, which emphasizes upon a work representing the character and personality of the...
IPRS MOVES BOMBAY HIGH COURT AGAINST USHODAYA ENTERPRISES WHICH RUNS THE RADIO CHANNEL EENADU FM
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The Indian Performing Rights Society (IPRS) has filed a suit in the Bombay High Court against Ushodaya Enterprises Pvt. Ltd which runs the radio channel Eenadu FM/ EFM.
The order dated December 9, 2019 states that the Interim Application is made in a Commercial IP Suit based on the rights,...
SHREE KRISHNA INTERNATIONAL FILM PRODUCTIONS VS. GOOGLE INDIA AND YOUTUBE LLC: Revisiting the Intermediary liability jurisprudence in the Indian Copyright law.
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After an eight year-long copyright battle, Suneel Darshan, proprietor of the Shree Krishna International film production company, has won a copyright infringement suit against Google India and YouTube LLC. The District court of Gurgaon has awarded damages of Rs. 50,000 in favor of the production company and has restrained...
On November 20, 2019 the media and entertainment industry woke up to the breaking news about FIR being filed by Economic Offences Wing (EOW) against one of India’s leading film studio and music label YRF (Yash Raj Films).
The news read as under:
“The Economic Offences Wing (EOW) of the Mumbai...
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...
DELHI HIGH COURT REFUSES TO GRANT AD-INTERIM INJUNCTION TO SAREGAMA IN ITS COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT SUIT AGAINST MADDOCK FILMS FOR THE SONG “KE ODHNI ODHU ODHU NE UDI JAYE” [READ...
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Continuing its litigation drive, Saregama India Limited recently dragged Maddock Films Pvt. Ltd, producers of the upcoming Rajkumar Rao and Mouni Roy starrer ‘Made in China’ to the Delhi High Court alleging infringement of their copyright in the song titled ‘Ke Odhni Odhu Odhu Ne Udi Jaye”.
(Link to the...
BREAKING: GOVERNMENT PROPOSES TO AMEND THE COPYRIGHT RULES, 2013 SEEKS TO BRING ALL MODES OF BROADCAST WITHIN THE AMBIT OF STATUTORY LICENSING PROVISIONS [READ DRAFT RULES]
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The Ministry of Commerce and Industry (Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade) has notified on May 30, 2019 the proposed amendments to the Copyright Rules, 2013 (“Proposed Rules”) in exercise of its powers conferred under Section 78 of the Copyright Act, 1957. The Ministry has sought objections...