Indian Copyright Statistics, Draft Copyright Manual Published, FIR Registered Against Park Hyatt, Hyderabad For copyright Infringement,\u00a0 Meme Creator Sues Info Wars,\u00a0 Disney vs Netflix: Global streaming wars and more are presented by the Copyright and Entertainment Law Attorneys of BananaIP Counsels.<\/p>\n
“Of all the creative work produced by humans anywhere, a tiny fraction has continuing commercial value. For that tiny fraction, the copyright is a crucially important legal device” \u2013 Lawrence Lessig<\/p>\n
There was an increase of\u00a0 34.76% in the total number of copyright filings compared to the last week. A total of \u00a0270 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 Cinematographic Film.<\/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 | 124<\/td>\n | 179<\/td>\n | 36.3%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| 2<\/td>\n | Musical works<\/td>\n | 22<\/td>\n | 27<\/td>\n | 20.4%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| 3<\/td>\n | Artistic works<\/td>\n | 18<\/td>\n | 34<\/td>\n | 61.53%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| 4<\/td>\n | Cinematograph Films<\/td>\n | 4<\/td>\n | 1<\/td>\n | 120%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| 5<\/td>\n | Sound Recordings<\/td>\n | 2<\/td>\n | 3<\/td>\n | 40%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| 6<\/td>\n | Software<\/td>\n | 21<\/td>\n | 26<\/td>\n | 21.27%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| <\/td>\n | Total<\/td>\n | 191<\/td>\n | 270<\/td>\n | 34.76%%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\nINDIAN COPYRIGHTS AND ENTERTAINMENT LAW UPDATES<\/strong><\/h2>\n\nThe Copyright office with an intention of bringing uniformity and consistency in its procedures relating to the examination of copyright applications has published the draft Copyright manual on registration of literary works, artistic works, cinematographic films, musical compositions and sound recordings. The draft manual is now open for public comments and any interested stakeholder may provide its comments\u00a0by 19th<\/sup> March 2018. \nFIR REGISTERED AGAINST PARK HYATT, HYDERABAD FOR COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT <\/strong> \nThe Banjara Hills police registered a case against the Park Hyatt \u00a0Hotel, Hyderabad for allegedly playing audio tracks and videos of Bollywood films without obtaining adequate permissions. The complaint was filed by Mumbai based Novex Communications,\u00a0 which\u00a0holds rights for Zee Music. In its complaint, Novex alleges that the Hotel played the sound recordings without taking any authorization or licenses from Novex. \u201cThe complainant alleged that the management played songs or videos from movies like Bar Bar Dekho, the rights of which were assigned to Novex,\u201d\u00a0stated Banjara Hill Police in their statement.<\/p>\n INTERNATIONAL COPYRIGHT AND ENTERTAINMENT LAW UPDATES<\/strong><\/h2>\n\nMatt Furie, the creator of the character and meme, Pepe the Frog , filed a copyright infringement suit against the US-based website Info Wars alleging that the site is using his character without permission to spread racist memes.\u00a0 Furie is seeking an injunction restraining Info Wars from selling posters with the character and seeks punitive damages against such infringing use. Furie claims that he created the character as a \u201cpeaceful frog dude\u201d but, in the run-up to the 2016 election, right-wing websites began to use the character in racist and other offensive memes.<\/p>\n LICENSING AND MERCHANDISING UPDATES<\/h2>\nDISNEY VS NETFLIX: GLOBAL STREAMING WARS<\/strong> Getting a license for playing a sound recording is easy and straightforward. The event organizer may get a license for using the songs from the copyright owner, copyright societies or collective management agencies in one shot.<\/p>\n |