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ARTICLE · 17 FEBRUARY 2012

Intellectual Property Rights In Sports-Indian Perspective

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The Sports industry has always been a massive sector across the world bringing together entertainment, games, culture and monetary business, right from the barbaric era through the glorious days of Caesar to the twenty first century money making sports industry.

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Christine Chiramel
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Article by Vijay Pal Dalmia, Advocate, Supreme Court of India and Delhi High Court, Partner & Head of Intellectual Property Laws Division, Vaish Associates Advocates, India and Christine Chiramel, Advocate

The Sports industry has always been a massive sector across the world bringing together entertainment, games, culture and monetary business, right from the barbaric era through the glorious days of Caesar to the twenty first century money making sports industry. Sporting games have always been encouraged by rulers, governments, private individuals and entities interested not only in the games themselves but more in the monetary business quotient that sports entail.

The SPORTING EVENTS are no more SPORTING EVENTS, what they used to be. Worldwide, MONEY has acquired an enormous role in all sporting events. CORPORATIZATION of sports has become monumental. Marketing through franchising, as well as brand building of the sports, sportsmen and the event has gained

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