{"id":40064,"date":"2017-06-23T12:34:58","date_gmt":"2017-06-23T07:04:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/one\/?p=40064"},"modified":"2025-06-13T14:53:00","modified_gmt":"2025-06-13T09:23:00","slug":"ola-copyright-infringement-coal-ministry-plagiarism-dancing-baby-volvo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bananaip.com\/intellepedia\/ola-copyright-infringement-coal-ministry-plagiarism-dancing-baby-volvo\/","title":{"rendered":"Ola caught in copyright infringement, Coal Ministry accused of Plagiarism, ‘Dancing baby’ Copyright case, Volvo sued for Copyright infringement and more."},"content":{"rendered":"

Copyright quotes, Indian copyright and entertainment law updates, International copyright and entertainment law updates, licensing and merchandising news brought to you by the Copyright and Entertainment Law Team of BIP Counsels<\/span><\/p>\n

Copyright quote of the week:<\/span><\/h2>\n

\u201cThe copyright bargain is a balance between protection for the artist and the rights for the consumer.\u201d<\/em><\/span>
\n— Robin Gross<\/em><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Indian Copyright and Entertainment Law Updates<\/span><\/h2>\n

Ola caught in copyright infringement row<\/span><\/h3>\n

The music company, Lahari Recording, had filed a police complaint against the online cab aggregator, Ola, accusing them of streaming pirated songs through its Ola Play Platform. Lahari accused Ola of downloading and playing songs on Ola Play Platforms in Karnataka, Delhi, Kolkata and Tamil Nadu. Following the complaint, the \u00a0Bangalore City Police raided Ola offices and seized equipment used for downloading and storing songs.<\/span><\/p>\n

Coal Ministry accused of plagiarism<\/span><\/h3>\n

Coal Ministry is accused of unauthorizedly using a picture from an Amnesty International report to document the human tragedy behind the expansion of coal. \u00a0The act of plagiarism was pointed out by Aruna Chandrasekher, a photojournalist who took the picture in 2014 while documenting the stories of people affected by the expansion of coal mines. This is not the first time Indian government reports have used materials available on the internet without giving due credits. The Home Ministry was recently accused of using photos of Spain-Morraco border in a report relating to India-Pakistan border.<\/span><\/p>\n

International Copyright and Entertainment Law Updates<\/span><\/h2>\n

US Supreme Court Turns down \u201cDancing Baby\u201d Copyright case<\/span><\/h3>\n

Recently, the US Supreme Court decided that it won\u2019t review the Court of Appeals’ decision in Stephanie Lenz v. Universal Music Corp. <\/em>The Suit was initiated by Lenz in 2007 who posted a 27-second\u00a0 video on YouTube of her toddler dancing to the song \u201cLet\u2019s Go Crazy\u201d.\u00a0 The video was later removed after Universal sending takedown notice to \u00a0YouTube . Lenz represented by \u00a0 Electronic\u00a0Frontier Foundation instututed a suit against the music giant alleging that Universal misrepresented to YouTube while sending the DMCA notice<\/span>
\nLenz claims that Universal could have easily come to the conclusion that the use of its Song in the video constituted a fair use. The Court of Appeals, in September 2015 agreed with Lenz that copyright holders must consider fair use before sending takedown notices. The case will now be redirected to the District Court for trial where Lenz will need to prove that Universal knew that usage of the said song amount to fair use.<\/span><\/p>\n

Volvo sued for copyright infringement<\/span><\/h3>\n

A Chicago-based company Berthold LLC is using the Swedish car manufacturer Volvo alleging copyright infringement.\u00a0 Berthold alleges that Volvo\u2019s typeface Volvo Sans 2012 OT Pro Font Software was derived from Berthold\u2019s Typeface software. Berthold is seeking an injunction against Volvo to prevent Volvo from further infringing Berthold\u2019s copyrights along with other general, special, actual and statutory damages and costs.<\/span><\/p>\n

Licensing and Merchandising News and Updates<\/span><\/h2>\n

YUPP TV to stream Dharma Productions Movies<\/span><\/h3>\n

The online streaming application YuppTV has partnered with the movie production house Dharma Productions to stream its content across the world except for India. Dharma productions have already signed a license agreement with Amazon for streaming its catalog in India.<\/span><\/p>\n

Entertainment Trademark updates<\/span><\/h2>\n

Marvel applies for Marvel HQ Trademark<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n

Marvel Comics, applied for registration of the mark MARVEL HQ before the United States Trade Mark and Patent Office. The Mark is applied for registration as a proposed to be used the mark for entertainment and education services falling under class 41.<\/span><\/p>\n

BIP Tip of the Week<\/span><\/h2>\n

Playing copyrighted content like music or films in taxies, buses, ships, flights or even hotel rooms without the permission of the copyright owner may amount to copyright infringement. Even playing a legally purchased CD or DVD in a bus or tax for the benefit of the travelers may invite copyright risks. The travel aggregators and\/or tour operators may approach the copyright holder or appropriate copyright societies for specific licenses to use or play music or movies in vehicles.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This post discusses recent copyright disputes involving Ola and the Coal Ministry, along with significant international cases and licensing deals in entertainment law. The analysis addresses copyright risks for businesses and provides updates relevant to Indian and global stakeholders.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":21,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,6,7],"tags":[8642,31,51,1043,62,620,2104,972],"class_list":["post-40064","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-copyrights","category-intellectual-property","category-media-and-entertainment-law","tag-coal-ministry","tag-copyright-infringement","tag-entertainment-law-2","tag-indian-copyright-law","tag-music-licensing","tag-ola","tag-plagiarism","tag-volvo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bananaip.com\/intellepedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40064","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=40064"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.bananaip.com\/intellepedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40064\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":135886,"href":"https:\/\/www.bananaip.com\/intellepedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40064\/revisions\/135886"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bananaip.com\/intellepedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bananaip.com\/intellepedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bananaip.com\/intellepedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}