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Entertainment Law Updates, International Copyright Updates, Entertainment Licensing and Updates, Government Updates, Copyright thought of the week and more presented by the Media & Entertainment law attorneys and experts of BananaIP Counsels, India’s Premier New Age IP Firm. Copyright Thought of the Week “The Copyright bargain: a balance between protection for the artist and rights for the consumer” -Robin Gross [Founder – IP Justice] Entertainment law News and Updates Supreme Court accepts the plea against ‘pre-censorship’ of…
April 21, 2017 Copyrights, Intellectual Property 0Comment 693Views 0Like
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The featured image is the symbol of Net Neutrality. The post is about the negative aspects of TRAIs decision on net neutrality. To read more click here.

TRAI’s Ban on Differential Pricing – The other side of Net Neutrality

  Thomas, in his earlier post shared his views on the beneficial aspects of TRAI’s Ban on Differential Pricing. However, in this post I will try to bring forth the arguments of those in favor of differential pricing and how these arguments may be justified keeping in mind the Indian economy. The whole country had been discussing back and forth with various ongoing campaigns of all kinds about Net Neutrality. The recent TRAI order prohibits all such data services which provided access to…
February 22, 2016 Intellectual Property 0Comment 501Views 0Like
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The Bigger Picture: Benefits of TRAI’s Ban on Differential Pricing Based on Content

As the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India’s (TRAI) ruling, dated 8th February, 2016, on differential data pricing has temporarily settled the long standing debate concerning net neutrality in India, which has been covered in our previous post, we shall analyse the positive outcomes of the said ruling for the businesses in India. Before we begin the analysis, let us briefly revisit the concepts of ‘net neutrality’ and ‘differential pricing’. Net neutrality is a concept that aims at ensuring…
February 20, 2016 Intellectual Property 0Comment 445Views 0Like
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Net Neutrality wins: How TRAI empowered the consumers

  In a major win to net neutrality advocates the telecom watchdog Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) barred telecom service providers from charging differential rates for data services, which put an end to the robust Free Basics service marketing launched by Facebook and Airtel Zero platform by Airtel in its present form. TRAI, sensing the need of the hour based on the huge cry for net neutrality by its activists and Facebook’s robust marketing of its ambitious project Free Basics,…
February 12, 2016 Intellectual Property 0Comment 494Views 0Like
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