TRAI Repeals 12-Minute TV Advertising Cap
The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) repealed its long standing regulation capping television advertisements at 12 minutes per clock hour. This was done through the Standards of Quality of Service (Duration of Advertisements in Television Channels) (Repealing)...
The Bombay High Court hears Novex v. National Sports Club of India
The Bombay High Court, presided over by Justice Somasekhar Sundaresan, heard an application filed by Novex Communications Private Limited against the National Sports Club of India (NSCI). An event conducted over the...
Sony Music Publishing and Warner Chappell Music have sued Anthropic
Per this recent report, Sony Music Publishing and Warner Chappell Music have sued Anthropic in a Northern California federal court, accusing it of unlawfully downloading and scraping copyrighted songs to train its Claude models....
Hollywood strikes first AI copyright truce with ByteDance
The Motion Picture Association (MPA) has entered into its first agreement with an artificial intelligence company, following months of discussions with ByteDance concerning copyright safeguards for its AI video and image-generation tools, Seedance and Seedream.
Delhi High Court Rules Gurbani Recitation Covered Under Religious Exception
The Delhi High Court declined to grant an ad-interim injunction sought by the Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee (SGPC) to restrain private channel Galactic Television and Communications from telecasting live Gurbani from the Golden Temple....
Bonjour,
Comment ça va? (Well … my French exhausts itself almost immediately after this … Alas)
But speaking of things unmistakably French, here’s something I wanted to share and briefly talk about: the 1852 French decree…
‘Twas a...
Shruti Haasan Moves Bombay High Court Over Personality Rights and AI Deepfakes
Actress Shruti Haasan has approached the Bombay High Court seeking INR 15 crore in damages against 18 defendants for allegedly unauthorised commercial use of her name, image, likeness and voice, as well...
Delhi High Court likely to order takedown of film teaser depicting Salman Khan's black buck case
The Delhi High Court indicated that it was inclined to direct the removal of a film teaser depicting the 1998 black buck poaching case involving actor Salman Khan....
Delhi High Court Holds OpenAI’s Training on Copyrighted Works Falls Under Fair Dealing
The Delhi High Court has held that OpenAI’s training of its large language models on original retrieved copyrighted works amounts to fair dealing and does not constitute copyright infringement. ANI Media...
Delhi HC orders Meta to take down ‘pirated’ Zee content from Facebook
The Delhi High Court directed Meta to take down multiple Facebook URLs unauthorizedly hosting copyrighted content belonging to Zee Entertainment Enterprises Ltd. Justice Anup Jairam Bhambhani issued an ex parte ad-interim order,...
