I am pleased to bring to you the second part of the guest post by Shankey Agrawal on the implications of GST on the entertainment and media industry. Shankey Agrawal is an advocate with over 9 years of experience in the field of Indirect Tax advisory and Litigation (before...
About the Author: Shubham Singh, Fourth Year, B.A. LL.B. (Hons.) Candidate, Hidayatullah National Law University, Raipur.
On May 26, 2020, President Donald J. Trump tweeted that mail-in ballots would be substantially fraudulent and subject to robbery and forgery. In furtherance of its policy and terms of use to check any...
About the Author: Garima Saxena is a fourth-year student at Rajiv Gandhi National University of Law, Punjab, and has a keen interest in Intellectual Property and Media Laws.
Parle Agro recently dragged Walmart India to the court over the infringement of their trademark ‘Appy Fizz’ and trade dress, which led...
Background:
In a landmark judgment titled Kent Cables v. Kent RO, pronounced by Justice Jyoti Singh on May 30, 2023, the Delhi High Court permanently restrained Kent RO from manufacturing and selling fans under the trademark “KENT”. The court analyzed complex legal propositions and, based on prior use and goodwill,...
While the global media and entertainment (M&E) sector has seen recovery as well as significant growth after the pandemic, online piracy has also been growing with estimates that the illegal pirate video services will be a $67 billion industry by 2023. Between January 2022 and August 2022, a significant...
About Author: The author is a B.A. LL. B graduate from ILS Law College, Pune (Batch: 2014-19) and currently practices intellectual property laws.
Introduction
The Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (“MEITY”) and the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting (“MIB”) has on 25th February 2021 published and notified the Information Technology...
We are pleased to bring to you our next guest post by Abhishek Iyer, 3rd Year B.A.-LL.B. Student at Gujarat National Law University, Gandhinagar.
On 5th March, 2020, Hon’ble Rajasthan High Court in Nathu Ram & Ors. v State of Rajasthan, while referring to a larger bench considered the issue 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...
Sneha Jain is a Partner at Saikrishna & Associates, a leading IP-boutique firm based out of Delhi. She is a graduate from ILS Law College Pune and joined the profession in 2010. She provides litigation and dispute resolution advise with special focus on media and entertainment, information technology and...
About the Author:Abhishek Iyer is a 4th Year B.A.-LL.B. Student at Gujarat National Law University, Gandhinagar. He had earlier written a post for us here.
Recently, a spokesperson for the International Society for Krishna Consciousness (“ISKON”) got into trouble for sharing a copyrighted video of Shemaroo on social media platform...
