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Sports today is not only about competition on the field. It is a high value commercial ecosystem established on identity, content, and access and each of these is secured through intellectual property ("IP") law.

Recently after laying down the necessary framework for uplinking by Indian channels, the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting (MIB) has further notified new, stricter guidelines for downlinking by foreign channels with a view of gaining control over the content being broadcasted from satellite TV channels uplinked outside India.

Recently after laying down the necessary framework for uplinking by Indian channels, the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting (MIB) has further notified new, stricter guidelines for downlinking by foreign channels with a view of gaining control over the content being broadcasted from satellite TV channels uplinked outside India.

The Supreme Court has clarified the service tax treatment of marketing and promotion expenditure incurred by a broadcaster on commercially exploiting acquired music and song video rights. The Court upheld the CESTAT’s view that such expenditure does not represent consideration for any taxable service to the film producers, since the broadcaster promoted the rights for its own benefit as assignee and therefore no taxable service relationship existed.

Non-Fungible Tokens: A Copyright Prospective Non-Fungible Tokens are in essence, digital tokens that represent and authenticate ownership of particular digital or real world items.

The globally contested legal battle on training large language models ("LLM") using copyrighted content recently reached India, with Asian News International ("ANI"), an Indian news agency, filing a copyright infringement suit in the Delhi High Court (the "Court") against Open AI.

The global gaming market has witnessed some spectacular growth in the past decade generating an estimated $184 billion in 2023. One of giants of the gaming industry, Nintendo...

Intellectual Property Rights are rights that are embedded in the statute and were created to provide protection to the creation of intellect and bestow the creator with exclusive rights to monetize their creation and generate wealth through it.

1.In India, The Copyright, 1957 or its predecessor legislations do not make registration of a Copyright mandatory. A Copyright is protected by virtue of its creation use under the Common Law rights.

The Hon'ble Bombay High Court in a recent judgment in the case of Cargil India Private Limited vs. M/s.M.M.Oil Enterprises dated May 16, 2019 has taken a strict view on the violation of temporary injunction orders by ...

With the ever-evolving social media and new platforms, content is generated in gigantic proportions. Every person is contributing to the tera bytes of new online content on a regular basis

It is true that a work is considered copyrighted the moment it is created but a right to sue for infringement arises only when it is registered.

What is Traditional Knowledge?

At the outset, let's define a cinematograph film. It is a visual recording across any medium/platform containing moving images or stills, which may include a sound recording accompanying such visual recording.

Mr. Daren Tang, Chief Executive, Intellectual Property Office of Singapore (IPOS), assumed the Chairmanship of the World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO) Standing Committee...

This blog aims to establish that Shari'a Law which is recognized by Arab countries as a primary source for various legislations does acknowledge the existence of IPR of persons and aims to protect them.

Copyright piracy is a threat to the creative liberty of artists.