Bombay City Civil Court refuses to restrain release of web series Scam 2003: The Curios Case of Abdul Karim Lala Telgi in a plea filed by Abdul Telgi’s daughter
Bombay City Civil Court on December 23, rejected a plea seeking temporary injunction on the release of the web series: Scam 2003:...
WHETHER STATE GOVERNMENTS CAN BAN ‘PADMAAVAT’ UNDER LOCAL CINEMA REGULATIONS PRIOR TO ITS RELEASE?
Anushree Rauta -
Bhansali’s ‘Padmaavat’ (earlier titled Padmavati) has been doing its rounds of controvesies since the inception of its shooting. Prior to the film receiving its certification from CBFC and now even post receiving the censor certificate, some state governments like the Rajasthan, Gujarat, Himachal Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh Government have...
PART 1: THE JUDGEMENT: MADRAS HC’S TRYST WITH SECTION 17 OF THE COPYRIGHT ACT: ANOTHER DECISION TO PONDER UPON
Akshat Agrawal -
PART 1: The JUDGEMENT
M/S Indian Record Manufacturing Co. Ltd. v. Ilaiyaraaja
ISSUES INVOLVED IN THE DECISION:
In a pre-1994 context, whether the plaintiff (who is a music production company) owns the copyright in the musical works...
CALCUTTA HIGH COURT REFUSES TO STAY RELEASE OF BENGALI FILM “BRAHMA JANEN GOPON KOMMOTI”
In a writ petition filed by Subhadep Adhikari challenging the release of the Bengali film “Brahma Janen Gopon Kommoti’ on the ground that it hurts the religious sentiments of the...
New Guidelines for Uplinking and Downlinking of Television Channels – A Welcoming Change
Pranita Saboo -
I. Introduction:
On November 09, 2022, the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting (MIB)’s Broadcasting wing passed guideline for uplinking and downlinking of television channels (“Guidelines”) that extends to whole of India and has come in effect from November 09, 2022. The Guideline has replaced the previous two guidelines for uplinking...
JABRA FAN: NATIONAL CONSUMER COMMISSION RULES EXCLUSION OF
SONG FROM MOVIE WHEN IT WAS INCLUDED IN TRAILER TO BE UNFAIR TRADE PRACTICE
NCDRC has held that, including a song in the promos and trailers of the movie when it is not part of the actual...
Delhi High Court observed that Google cannot absolve itself from the liability of ensuring that the keywords used are not an infringement of a trademark
An application was moved by DR Logistics before the Delhi High Court, seeking an interim ex-parte injunction against Google India, Google LLC and Just Dial,...
TEACHERS ARE EVERYWHERE SO ARE STUDENTS! HAPPY TEACHER’S DAY: A DAY TO CEREBRATE ONE OF THE MOST CELEBRATED RELATIONSHIPS
Lokesh Vyas -
Teachers are everywhere so are students. They both are equally important for society but are they such simple social constructions? Or are they metaphors for maintaining knowledge sharing?, Or are they harbingers of epistemic justice? If everyone is a teacher and everyone is a student, then what about others?...
In what is being termed as a David vs. Goliath litigation, West Publishing Corporation and Thomson Reuters Enterprise (proprietors of the premium legal research tool “Westlaw”) have lodged in a Copyright Infringement claim and a Tortious interference action against ROSS Intelligence, a new and upcoming Machine Learning oriented solution...
AMAZON V. AMWAY: DELHI HIGH COURT RULES THAT DIRECT SELLERS ON E-COMMERCE WEBSITES PREVAIL OVER (AND WITHOUT CONSENT OF) DIRECT SELLING ENTITIES
Anushree Rauta -
By Anushka Verma
In a battle between Direct Selling Entities (‘DSEs’) and e-commerce platforms, the Delhi High Court has decided in the favour of the latter and has declared that selling products of DSEs online without taking consent of the entities is not a trademark infringement. In the...