Recent Copyright Cases, Entertainment Trademark News, International Copyright Updates, Entertainment and Copyright Licensing and Merchandizing, Copyright thought of the week and more,\u00a0presented by the Media & Entertainment law\u00a0attorneys and experts of BananaIP Counsels, India\u2019s Premier New Age IP Firm.<\/p>\n
\u201cEntertainment Law is not as Entertaining as Entertainment\u201d\u00a0<\/em>
\nDr. Kalyan C Kankanala<\/p><\/blockquote>\nRecent Copyright Cases<\/u><\/strong><\/h3>\n
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- Zee Entertainment Enterprises Ltd (ZEEL) vs. Sony Pictures Networks India Pvt Ltd<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
ZEEL filed a Copyright infringement suit before the Bombay High Court claiming that it\u2019s popular show, \u2018India’s Best Dramebaaz\u2019, a televised talent hunt for child actors in the 5-12 year age group has been illicitly copied by Sony. \u00a0ZEEL says Sony has infringed its copyright in its concept note and ‘production bible’. Court dismissed the notice of motion stating that the submitted evidences fails to prove any similarities between both the shows. The court further stated that the ambit of both the shows are fairly distinct.<\/p>\n
Entertainment Trademark News and Updates<\/u><\/strong><\/h3>\n
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- Beckhams gets their daughter\u2019s name registered as a trademark<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
Beckhams have trademarked their 5-year-old daughter\u2019s name Harper which is the most recent addition to the Beckham brand empire that has been estimated to be worth hundreds of millions of pounds. The name is trademarked for exclusive commercial use and for the use in the entertainment industry.<\/p>\n
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- Blac Chyna denied the trademark registration for the name Kardashian<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
Angela Renee White\u00a0professionally known as\u00a0Blac Chyna, an American model and entrepreneur had applied for a trademark registration for the name \u2018Angela Renee Kardashian\u2019 before her wedding with Rob Kardashian to gain exclusive ownership of the name for her brand related business ventures. Kardashian sisters, the trio had opposed the trademark application claiming that they will \u201csuffer damage including irreparable injury to their reputation and goodwill\u201d if the application is granted. The Court favoured the Kardashian sisters and rejected Blac Chyna\u2019s trademark petition.<\/p>\n
International Copyright Updates<\/u><\/strong><\/h3>\n
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- Infringement of Copyright against Ed Sheeran settled out of court<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
Last June, the songwriters of the song \u201cAmazing\u201d filed an infringement suit claiming damages to the tune of 14 million pounds against singer Ed Sheeran for copying note by note of their tune in his song \u201cPhotograph\u201d. A California judge has confirmed that the case has been dismissed as the parties have settled the issue out of court.<\/p>\n
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- Copyright infringement lawsuit against Demi Lovato gets settled<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
Sleigh Bells had filed a Copyright infringement in the year 2016 before the California Federal Court alleging that Demi Lovato\u2019s track \u2018Stars\u2019 is identical to their 2010 track \u201cInfinity Guitars\u201d of their debut album. Both the parties have now filed for a settlement in court and the terms of record is ongoing and hitherto undisclosed.<\/p>\n
Entertainment Patent News and Updates<\/u><\/strong><\/h3>\n
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- Licensing deal of patent portfolios to enhance technology in broadcasting<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
TiVo Inc, a global Leader in entertainment technology, has entered in to a multi-year IP License agreement with Roku Inc, a pioneer in consumer digital media products based on california. The license covers access to patent portfolios of TiVo and additionally entitled to access high quality entertainment metadata and other products of TiVo in-order to advance power innate search and navigating the user interface.<\/p>\n
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- Blackberry wins legal battle against Qualcomm<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
Qualcomm, the telecommunication company, is in huge trouble after losing in an arbitration case to Blackberry for overcharging royalty payments.\u00a0 The networking equipment company has to pay $815 million to blackberry for overcharging patent royalties after the sum was decided in an arbitration award. It is to be noted that this is not the first time that a penalty has been charged on Qualcomm for overcharging for its chipset. Earlier Apple has also filed a lawsuit saying that the company has been overcharging for its cellular patents.<\/p>\n
Entertainment and Copyright Licensing and Merchandizing<\/u><\/strong><\/h3>\n
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- Toys \u2018R\u2019 US Japan gets consolidated with their Asian Venture<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
Toys \u2018R\u2019 US, a leading retailer in toy and juvenile products based out of New York is consolidating its Japanese business, Toys \u2018R\u2019 US Japan with Toys \u2018R\u2019 Us Asia, their venture in Greater China under a new joint-venture agreement with\u00a0Hong Kong-based Fung Retailing Limited.
\nHong Kong will be the headquarters for the combined business while regional office will continue to operate in Kawasaki, Japan.<\/p>\nPringles join hands with Helix<\/strong><\/h3>\n
The famous tube can chips can now be found in the form of stationary also. Pringles has signed a licensing agreement with Helix, where the UK based company will design pencil boxes in the shape of the famous Pringles tube can. Pink key Consulting is the European licensing agent for the deal that is struck between the two companies.<\/p>\n
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- Gold\u2019s Gym set to open more stores<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
The popular health and fitness chain is set to open five more gyms in middle Tennessee. The heath brand has signed a franchise agreement with Tennessee Fitness LLC, which is set to open the gym at convenient locations. The move comes from Gold Gym\u2019s office in an attempt to expand their business all over the world.<\/p>\n
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- Flipkart overtakes E-bay <\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
The popular online shopping site has overtaken the American site eBay and will handle all the South Asian operations of eBay. The American entity has invested $5oo million in Flipkart and both the companies have merged their operations, providing Flipkart with the access to eBay\u2019s South Asian access and eBay with Flipkart\u2019s plethora of Indian customers.<\/p>\n
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- WWE to open store in India<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
Indian wrestling fans are in for a surprise. WWE, World Wide Entertainment, the American entity providing wrestling matches is all set to open up stores in India. The Souled Store and WWE have agreed made a license agreement where toys, collectibles, trading cards will be exclusively available in India for the first time.<\/p>\n
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- Karl Lagerfeld goes into partnership with Swarovski<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
The famous jewellery designer Karl Lagerfeld has signed a licensing agreement with the jewellery brand Swarovski to launch his new line of exclusive jewellery featuring Swarovski diamonds. The designer will be collaborating with the Austrian brand to launch his new collection which will feature exclusive fashion jewellery ranging from \u00a345-\u00a3500.<\/p>\n
Digital and Internet Licensing<\/u><\/strong><\/h3>\n
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- Reserve Bank of India approves Amazon\u2019s eWallet<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
Amazon\u2019s own digital wallet, Amazon Pay Balance, has recently acquired license from the Reserve Bank of India to operate as a full-scale eWallet. It is to be noted that Amazon launched its digital wallet in December last year, in furtherance of their application for Prepaid Payment Instrument (PPI) license, primarily for transactions happening at their e-commerce portal. This development has positioned popular digital wallets such as Paytm, Freecharge, MobiKwik in direct competition with Amzon Pay Balance. It would be interesting to see if Amazon\u2019s eWallet can be game changer in the market considering cashless transactions has taken a dip lately.<\/p>\n
BananaIP Entertainment Suggestion of the Week<\/u><\/strong><\/h3>\n
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- Copyrights protection for online business<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
For online businesses, copyrights assume more importance than they do for other businesses from both protection and risk mitigation perspectives. Protecting copyrights in interfaces, website designs, layouts, menu structures, and other possible aspects of the business will make it difficult for competitors to replicate the business. It will also prevent slavish copying by competitors.
\nIn addition to protecting copyrights, online businesses and e-commerce portals must also ensure that third-party copyrights are not infringed by appropriate measures and take-down policies. Every online business and e-commerce portal must have a well-defined set of terms and conditions and a privacy policy to protect and safeguard its interests<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The post analyses recent entertainment trademark news, copyright cases, and international licensing updates. Key legal developments and practical suggestions are provided for businesses, with a focus on risk mitigation and compliance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":3,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,22,7],"tags":[31,8556,29,5,6988,5510,23,3547],"class_list":["post-39143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-copyrights","category-ip-commercialization-licensing","category-media-and-entertainment-law","tag-copyright-infringement","tag-entertainment-trademark","tag-india","tag-intellectual-property","tag-international-copyright","tag-legal-updates","tag-licensing","tag-merchandising"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bananaip.com\/intellepedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39143","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bananaip.com\/intellepedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bananaip.com\/intellepedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bananaip.com\/intellepedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bananaip.com\/intellepedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39143"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bananaip.com\/intellepedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39143\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":135717,"href":"https:\/\/www.bananaip.com\/intellepedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39143\/revisions\/135717"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bananaip.com\/intellepedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bananaip.com\/intellepedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bananaip.com\/intellepedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}