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\nIndian Copyright Statistics,\u00a0 Fashion brand Christian Dior accused of plagiarism,\u00a0 \u201cAadhi\u201d is copied claims writer,\u00a0 Petition filed against release of Aami, All India Radio Partnered with Amazon,\u00a0 Canada\u2019s FairPlay lobby\u2019s for an Independent Piracy Review Agency,\u00a0 Sony Music signs deal with Amazon and more is presented by the Copyright and Entertainment Law Attorneys of BananaIP Counsels.<\/p>\n
“Without freedom to offend, freedom of expression ceases to exist”- Salman Rushdie<\/p>\n
There was an increase of 27.89% in the total number of copyright filings compared to the last week. A total of 241 applications were filed for copyright registration during the last week. While most of the applications were filed for literary works and only 1 application was filed for registering Sound Recordings.<\/p>\n
| Sr. No<\/td>\n | Types of work<\/td>\n | Number of Applications previous week<\/td>\n | Number of Applications this week<\/td>\n | Percentage change<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| 1<\/td>\n | Literary Works<\/td>\n | 121<\/td>\n | 167<\/td>\n | 31.9%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| 2<\/td>\n | Musical works<\/td>\n | 17<\/td>\n | 26<\/td>\n | 41.8%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| 3<\/td>\n | Artistic works<\/td>\n | 21<\/td>\n | 32<\/td>\n | 41.5%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| 4<\/td>\n | Cinematograph Films<\/td>\n | 0<\/td>\n | 2<\/td>\n | 200%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| 5<\/td>\n | Sound Recordings<\/td>\n | 2<\/td>\n | 1<\/td>\n | 66.6%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| 6<\/td>\n | Software<\/td>\n | 21<\/td>\n | 13<\/td>\n | 40%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| <\/td>\n | Total<\/td>\n | 182<\/td>\n | 241<\/td>\n | 27.89%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\nINDIAN COPYRIGHTS AND ENTERTAINMENT LAW UPDATES<\/strong><\/h2>\n\nOrijit Sen, an Indian designer has accused the high-end fashion brand Christian Dior of plagiarizing his designs. \u00a0Orijit claims that he created\u00a0 designs of a man doing yoga poses in 2000 and claimed that he was shocked to see an Elle India magazine cover with Sonam Kapoor wearing a printed dress that resembled his design. “I couldn’t believe they’ve copy-pasted my artwork and used it as part of an international collection,”\u00a0 Orijit said in his statement to NDTV. \n\u201cAADHI\u201d IS COPIED CLAIMS WRITER<\/strong> \nJeethu Joseph, writer and director of Pranav Mohanlal\u2019s Aadhi has been accused of plagiarism by V S Jayakumar, editor of Oliver Publication. Jayakumar claims that the story and plot of the recently released film was lifted from his story \u201cEnte Weekend Party\u201d published in 2011. He claims that his story was also published as a book which was released by Japanese director Ryota Nakano at International Film Festival of Kerala in 2013.\u00a0 \u201cThe story was submitted to the festival as part of its event \u2018Project Speech\u2019. I believe that Joseph got the story from Chalachitra Academy, the organizer of the festival\u201d he said in a news conference. Jayakumar stated that he is planning to initiate a copyright infringement suit against Jeethu Joseph. \nPETITION FILED AGAINST RELEASE OF AAMI <\/strong> \nThe Kerala High Court on Wednesday issued a notice to the Central Board of Film Certification on a writ petition seeking a ban on the upcoming film Aami. The film is a biopic on the poet and author Kamala Das Surraya. The petition, filed by Kochi based lawyer KP Ramachandran, seeks to restrain the Board from issuing censor certificate to the film. He alleges that the film was made with the intention of justifying love jihad and that the Director had twisted and omitted details about Kamala Surraya\u2019s life. \u201cThe conversion of Madhavikutty into Islam was the beginning of \u2018love jihad\u2019 in Kerala. The wrong picturisation of Das justifying forceful religious conversion would send the wrong message to viewers\u201d, stated his petition. \nALL INDIA RADIO PARTNERED WITH AMAZON<\/strong> \nIndia\u2019s public service broadcaster, All India Radio has partnered with the e-commerce platform Amazon for the latter\u2019s voice-controlled line of speakers, Echo. “Echo devices powered by the AI assistant Alexa will start streaming All India Radio services including FM radio, Vividh Bharati and 41 other services in next 10 days”, said Fayyaz Sheheryar, Director General Prasar Bharati. \nINTERNATIONAL COPYRIGHT AND ENTERTAINMENT LAW UPDATES<\/strong> \nCANADA\u2019S FAIRPLAY LOBBY\u2019S FOR AN INDEPENDENT PIRACY REVIEW AGENCY<\/strong> \nThe coalition of Telecom and National Media companies of Canada called FairPlay has filed an application with the Canadian Radio-Television and Telecommunications Communications (CRTC) asking it to create an Independent Piracy Review Agency. The proposed agency will be responsible for reviewing all applications to block pirated websites and make recommendations to CRTC to block such websites.<\/p>\n LICENSING AND MERCHANDISING UPDATES<\/h2>\nSONY MUSIC SIGNS DEAL WITH AMAZON<\/strong> Taking down Infringing Contents<\/strong> |