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Doctrine of Merger and Copyright Law

The fundamental rule of Copyright law is that facts and ideas are not copyrightable, it is only the creative expression of such ideas and facts that is rewarded by law, by conferring a privilege to exclusively exploit such expression for a limited time. However, not all expression are accorded protection under the Copyright Law. The law affords protection to expressions that are fixed in a medium and are ―original. Section 13 of the Copyright Act provides that ―original, literary, artistic,…
November 23, 2015 Copyrights, Intellectual Property, Media and Entertainment Law 0Comment 7178Views 0Like
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The Diary of Anne Frank or Otto Frank?

  “I wish to go on living even after my death” -Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl This was just one of the famous lines that Anne Frank wrote in her diary - ‘Kitty’, which it was fondly referred to as by Anne when she penned her thoughts into it. Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl or more famously known as the Diary of Anne Frank was a journal or a diary of a young Jewish girl…
November 23, 2015 Copyrights, Intellectual Property 0Comment 673Views 0Like
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Indian Copyright Law and Fair dealing

The concept of fair dealing is statutorily entrenched in Section 52 of the Copyright Act, 1957. What fair dealing does is that it permits certain acts with respect to copyrighted works, which otherwise would have constituted as infringement. The concept of fair dealing found in the UK copyright law as well as the Indian copyright law, is much more restrictive that its US counterpart, fair use. While the Indian law provides a specific list of fair dealing acts and purposes,…
November 16, 2015 Copyrights, Intellectual Property 0Comment 1211Views 0Like
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Statutory Licensing for Broadcasting Organisations

  The objective of non–voluntary licensing is two-fold. First, to overcome the difficulty of locating the correct owner of the copyrighted work and getting an individual license from him and second is to avoid the creation of monopoly of copyright owners. The result the state looks at achieving from this provision is ensuring public dissemination and authors' compensation and avoiding market monopoly. The Copyright (Amendment) Act, 2012 has incorporated a new section into Chapter VI of the Copyright Act, which…
November 16, 2015 Copyrights, Intellectual Property, Media and Entertainment Law 0Comment 609Views 0Like
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Social Media and Intellectual Property (Part VI): Select Copyright Cases

This post briefs three copyright cases that provide insights into copyright issues with respect to content posted on Social Media platforms. Scrabble v. Scrabulous In 2008, two Indians Rajat and Jayant Agarwalla, launched a Facebook App called 'Scrabulous.' It was a word game similar to Scrabble. Initially Mattel, and later Hasbrow, right holders of the Scrabble game sued the Agarwalla brothers for both copyright and trade mark infringement at the Delhi High Court. After reviewing the facts, the Delhi High…
November 16, 2015 Intellectual Property, Media and Entertainment Law, Publicity Rights/ Celebrity Rights, Social Media Law, Trade Secrets, Trademarks 0Comment 867Views 0Like
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Hollywood Copyrights and Bollywood Copy(right!?)

‘Plagiarism’ is not a foreign word to the entertainment industry. It is not uncommon in Bollywood to dress ‘plagiarism’ as ‘inspiration’. Studies show that nearly eight out of every ten Bollywood movies produced is “inspired” by one or more Hollywood films. Bollywood has time and again faced criticism for its “blatant copying” of Hollywood storylines and for having taken undue advantage of the unfamiliarity of the Indian audiences with respect to international films. Although very few western studios attempted to…
November 9, 2015 Copyrights, Intellectual Property 0Comment 1537Views 0Like
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The featured image is of the Lion Capital which consists of the Ashoka Chakra, with a horse and bull on either sides, and an hoisted Indian flag below it. The Lion Capital is the national emblem of India. The image is related to the post as it is a part of the Sinapse Series"Intellectual Property (IP) in India: A Decade of Progress". To read the post click here.

Intellectual Property (IP) in India: A Decade of Progress Part 16

This post exhibits the statistics of IP litigation in India in the past decade. The following table displays the statistics that were arrived at after conducting a search on Manupatra . It tabulates the estimated number of decisions passed by the Supreme Court and High Courts with respect to  patents, trademarks and copyrights in the past decade. IP Decisions Passed by SC and HCs from 2004 – 2014 Year Number of Decided Cases for Patent Number of Decided Cases for Trademark Number of…
October 12, 2015 Copyrights, Intellectual Property, Patents, Trademarks 0Comment 590Views 0Like
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Copyright and Entertainment-PPT by Dr. Kalyan C. Kankanala at GNLU

This presentation was delivered by Dr. Kalyan C. Kankanala at GNLU as a part of the entertainment law course offered for LLB students. The presentation covers: • Introduction to copyright law and philosophy of copyright law; • Copyrightability - Idea/Expression Dichotomy, Ideas and Expressions, Originality, Modicum of Creativity - tests; • Abstraction of expressions from ideas, public domain works, facts, common scenes, concepts, themes, etc; • Copyrightable Subject Matter - Works protected; • Rights granted to each type of work, and differences in rights; •…
October 9, 2015 Copyrights, Intellectual Property, Media and Entertainment Law 0Comment 884Views 0Like
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Entertainment Law – IP and Entertainment PPT by Dr. Kalyan C. Kankanala at GNLU

This presentation was delivered by Dr. Kalyan C. Kankanala at GNLU as a part of the entertainment law course offered for LLB students. The presentation covers: Meaning of intellectual property; Nature of protection offered by IP; Different species of Intellectual Property, and their relevance to entertainment industry: Role of Patents in Entertainment Business; Copyrights and Entertainment; Trade Marks and their relevance to entertainment industry; Industrial Designs/Design Patents and their role in licensing and merchandizing; Geographical Indications and their role in entertainment; Trade Secrets in the  Entertainment Industry; Confidential Information…
October 9, 2015 Media and Entertainment Law 0Comment 715Views 0Like
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The Monkey Returns!

First there was the selfie and then came the Monkey Selfie. Who can forget the series of selfies taken by the six-year-old crested macaque Naruto, who was singlehandedly responsible for the selfie evolution. A place which evens the selfie stick couldn’t take. To jog you memory, here is a brief back ground- English photographer David John Slater, on a trip to the Indonesian National Park, had left his camera without any supervision. The camera landed in the hands of Naruto,…
September 24, 2015 Copyrights, Intellectual Property 0Comment 583Views 0Like
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