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We have multiple acts to protect Intellectual Property within the territory of the country.

With the skyrocketed growth in the consumption of social media content, there is a significant increase with the infringement of intellectual property.

Eros, being the owner of several films, had entered into a term sheet with Telemax (consisting of an arbitration clause) for granting content marketing and distribution rights in respect of films.

Can a sanyasi (renunciate) own copyright in the literary works authored by him? Does renunciation of all worldly desires fall within its ambit a creation of intellectual labour...

Screenwriters Association (SWA), formerly known as Film Writers Association (FWA) is a registered trade union of writers...

Copyright law attempts to safeguard creative works that are considered to be the intellectual property of the creator, particularly in the field of literature, music, fine art, entertainment, films, and artist's performances.

In the modern era, Intellectual property rights plays a significant role on trade of every nation. In this digitized world, there stands a higher risk of creative ideas getting stolen without the...

The new millennium witnessed the technological revolution in every spectrum boosting up the economical standards of the country. The most reflective and operative area of technological advancement is in entertainment industry.

It is fairly common for trials in intellectual property law suits to get prolonged incessantly owing to delaying tactics adopted by one or more parties to such suits.

On 21 August 2024, the Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade (DPIIT) withdrew its controversial Office Memorandum No. 14-35/2015-CRB/LU (IPR-VII) dated 5 September 2016 (Office Memorandum).

The micro-blogging platform X (formerly known as Twitter) is a popular social media intermediary hosting audio-visual content posted by users.

Each year, 20,000 to 25,000 original songs are made by over 40,000 music creators in India (this excludes remixes and music by the unorganized sector). Music is integral to streaming, films, television, radio, gaming...

Bali- the island of thousand temples (literally!); an epitome of cultural richness, brings to the mind historic statues, temples, monuments, etc.

In Sameer Wadekar & Anr v Netflix Entertainment Services Pvt. Ltd. (LD-VC-70 OF 2020), the Bombay High Court in a hearing conducted through video conference refused to grant interlocutory...

Perjury is an act, where a person produces false evidence with complete knowledge of such evidence being false before the Court of Law in an attempt to deceive or mislead the court and lead to miscarriage of justice.

Can an artwork that is under copyright be relied upon for obtaining trademark registration?

With respect to, the right of a Copyright Society to institute a suit in its own name for infringement of Copyright, an appeal was filed to the earlier decision rendered by the Delhi High Court in Phonographic Performance Ltd. v. Hotel Gold Regency & Ors. [2008 (37) PTC 587 (Del.)]. This decision in appeal declared that a Copyright Society was held not liable to institute a suit for copyright infringement without making the copyright owner a party to the same.

In the case of Roma Mitra,W/o Dr. (Prof.) N.R Mitra (Appellant/Petitioner) v State of Bihar and Dr. (Mrs) Supata Bhattacharya (Respondent/Complainant); the Petitioner under Section 482 of the Code of Criminal Procedure Code(CPC) prayed for quashing of an order passed by the Judicial Magistrate, who had taken cognizance of offence under Sections 63,67 & 68 of the Copyright Act and Section 120B of the Indian Penal Code (IPC).