Lahari Recording Company has challenged Section 31(1)(b) and 31D of the Copyright Act, 1957 before the Supreme Court by filing a petition under Article 32 of the Constitution. The Supreme Court vide order dated July 13, 2018 has issued notice in the matter. The matter is tentatively listed on...
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...
The Calcutta High Court vide its order dated October 12, 2018 has directed Vodafone Idea Limited to deposit a sum of INR 2.5 crores with the HC Registrar within three weeks. The order was passed in a copyright infringement suit filed by Indian Performing Rights Society (IPRS) praying for...
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...
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...
In the first part of the article, we argued that the copyrightability of Sherlock’s emotion is not possible under copyright law and it seems to be a gimmick to extend the protection over the character of Sherlock which is already in the public domain.
As the name suggests, copyright misuse...
(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...
(This post has been co-authored by Harshil Dureja and Anushree Rauta)
Phonographic Performance Limited (PPL) (petitioner) is a collective rights organization licensing its members’ sound recordings for communication to public in the areas of public performance and radio broadcast. PPL owns and/or controls the Public Performance rights of some of...
This article is written by Lokesh Vyas and Angad Makkar.
Background
On April 4, 2021, the Tribunals Reforms (Rationalisation and Conditions of Service) Ordinance, 2021 (“the Tribunals Ordinance”) was promulgated which dissolved certain existing appellate bodies and transferred their functions (such as adjudication of appeals) to other existing judicial bodies. A...
The Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade (DPIIT) has vide notification dated July 21, 2020 approved the following proposals for appointment to the posts of Technical member (Patents), Technical Member (Trademarks) and Technical Member (Copyrights) in IPAB for a period of four years.
Read notification: here
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