Corporate Law : Using Instagram’s free music in business promotions is treated as commercial use. The key takeaway is that companies must obtain...
Corporate Law : Examines whether works created using generative AI meet India’s legal standards of originality and authorship under existing cop...
CA, CS, CMA : Learn how to copyright your logo in India. Understand the difference between copyright and trademark protection for logos and step...
Corporate Law : Explore the intersection of personality rights, copyright, and trademark laws in India, focusing on celebrity branding, legal fram...
Corporate Law : Delhi High Court in The Bhakti Vedanta Book Trust India v. Www.Friendwithbooks.Co (CS(COMM) 88/2021 & I.A. 78/2023) marks a signif...
Corporate Law : Ministry of Commerce & Industry Simplified Patent and Copyright Registration helping India become an innovation hub : Shri Piy...
Corporate Law : It has come to the notice of the Department of Industrial Policy & Promotion (DIPP), Ministry of Commerce & Industry that a websit...
Finance : Emami Ltd, the owner of Zandu Balm, today said its copryright infringement dispute with the production company of Salman Khan star...
Service Tax : Anil Ambani Group firm Reliance Big Entertainment has challenged levy of service tax on sale of copyrights of movies and other art...
Service Tax : PVR Pictures, Balaji Telefilms, Yash Raj Films and UTV Motion Pictures have moved the Delhi High Court against the government's re...
Income Tax : The Tribunal clarified that granting limited broadcast rights without rights to modify or exploit content does not constitute roya...
Corporate Law : High Court denied pre-arrest bail to a trader found selling fake branded goods without GST invoices, holding such acts cause finan...
Corporate Law : SC sets framework distinguishing copyright from design protection for industrial drawings, impacting IP law. Clarifies Section 15(...
Corporate Law : Madras High Court stays ED's provisional attachment of director S. Shankar's property in a PMLA case related to copyright infringe...
Corporate Law : In a landmark ruling, Delhi High Court permanently restrains 50 rogue websites from illegally streaming Disney Hotstar shows and m...
Corporate Law : 1. Short title and commencement. - (1) These rules may be called the Copyright (Amendment) Rules, 2021. (2) They shall come int...
Corporate Law : The following draft of certain rules to amend Copyright Rules, 2013 is hereby given and the draft will be taken into consideration...
Corporate Law : Whether the internet broadcasting companies come under the purview of Statutory Licensing as per provisions of section 31D of the ...
The YouTube’s copyright policy should be known to all the users. Technically speaking, it is the second largest search engine in the world and consists of more than 31 million active channels. It’s a great platform with returns for content creators.
A form of intellectual property known as copyright protects the expression of ideas. It shields original artistic, literary, dramatic, cinematographic, or sound recording authors or owners from unlawful use or duplication of work in India
As per the scheme of the Copyright Act, 1957 in order for any person to obtain copyright registration of an artistic work, which is being used or is capable of being used in respect of goods and services, the NOC is mandatorily to be obtained under the proviso of Section 45(1) of the Copyright Act, 1957.
Section 51 of Copyright Act, 1957 – If any person uses without permission of licence owner or from Registrar, any product would amount to infringement of copyright.
Presently, we find several episodes of Anti-Competitive practices in the digital space. The existing Competition Law has been empowered to put technology and data induced variables for the assessment purpose to basically ascertain the market share of the alleged digital company. Such an Assessment is required to proceed further with the investigation of an anti-competitive matter.
Held that there is no infringement of copyright as some contents are bound to be similar as teaching given in the Holy Books Quran and Hadees and other religious text related to Islam religion are bound to be same in all books which are about teaching on Islam.
Culver Max Entertainment Private Limited Vs F1.mylivecricket.live and Ors (Delhi High Court) Defendants No. 1 to 39 are said to be rogue infringing websites engaged in the business of uploading pirated and unlicensed content. Among the various illegal acts done by them is the live streaming of various sporting events. Unauthorized communication/ broadcast to public […]
IPRs, as the term suggests, accord legal protection to concepts and data that square measure wont to develop new inventions or processes. These rights modify the holder to exclude imitators from selling such inventions or processes for such that time;
Offence u/s 63 of the Copyright Act provides punishment of imprisonment for a term which shall not be less than six months but which may extend to three years and with fine. Accordingly, Part II of the First Schedule of the Cr.P.C., if the offence is punishable with imprisonment for three years and onwards but not more than seven years the offence is a cognizable offence.
Universal City Studios Llc & Ors. Vs Vegamovies Run & Ors. (Delhi High Court) Defendant Websites provide illegal content for free and such availability of content is supported by the advertisements featuring on these websites. The primary purpose of the Defendant Websites is to commit or facilitate copyright infringement. Thus, Defendants No. 1 to 12 […]
