Category: Copyright
Copyright Registration in India
August 3, 2023
Biswajit Sarkar - IP Law Firm India
Post time: 6:47 pm
Copyright Registration in India ensures legal protection to the creators of original works. Copyright is a kind of intellectual property right which grants exclusive rights to the creator of the original work. In India, the protection of copyright is governed by the Copyright Act, 1957.
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Tricky Tattoo
July 21, 2023
Biswajit Sarkar - IP Law Firm India
Post time: 6:22 pm
Understanding Copyright How would you define copyright? In simple word, the term “copyright” is a combination of the two words, i.e., “copy” and “right,” which means “right to copy.” In other words, it gives the copyright owner the exclusive right to make copies of the work, and to exercise the
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Music Piracy
June 21, 2023
Biswajit Sarkar - IP Law Firm India
Post time: 2:06 pm
Music is an artistic work which is subject to copyright protection. Music lovers can now effortlessly stream music from anywhere in the world. Even in restaurants, bars, and lounges, the music is played to entertain their customers, whether by employing DJs or playing music through sound systems. However, copyright
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Protection of Cultural Heritage
January 24, 2023
Biswajit Sarkar - IP Law Firm India
Post time: 3:41 pm
There are two types of cultural heritage, tangible and intangible. Tangible heritage includes heritage sites like historical temples, palaces etc, artifacts and archaeological sites and intangible heritage includes stories passed on orally through generations, traditional handicrafts, rituals, knowledge based on use of flora and fauna
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Safeguarding Musical Work
December 28, 2022
Biswajit Sarkar - IP Law Firm India
Post time: 10:30 am
Copyright infringement disrupts the exclusive right of the copyright holder, who is usually the music producer in the case of musical works, to gain commercial benefits from their copyright protected works. Copyright involves the exclusive right to reproduce and distribute the original work.
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Santa Claus at free zone
December 24, 2022
Biswajit Sarkar - IP Law Firm India
Post time: 5:24 pm
The question which arises, if the character of Santa Claus is so widely used and to gain commercially benefits by attracting consumers, then who owns it and how is the intellectual property rights of the proprietor protected.
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Securing Original Photographs
December 21, 2022
Biswajit Sarkar - IP Law Firm India
Post time: 12:46 pm
Photographs are under the subject matter of copyright which means that photographs are artistic works that attract copyright protection.
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All you want to know about Registration of Copyright
September 9, 2022
Biswajit Sarkar - IP Law Firm India
Post time: 4:00 pm
Copyright has been referred to as the creation of a statute under the private property of law that has its subsistence in the various types of works. The law governing the regime of copyright in India is the Copyright Act of 1957.
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Copyright Search
September 6, 2022
Biswajit Sarkar - IP Law Firm India
Post time: 3:57 pm
The copyright search forms the basic step of copyright registration. The copyright search is conducted by the applicant or his legal representative, to check if the same work has been published or has been made available to the public at large. However, the person can
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Copyleft: Is it against Copyright?
August 22, 2022
Biswajit Sarkar - IP Law Firm India
Post time: 5:38 pm
Be it in music, literature, movies, or even software that our lives would be incomplete without, most of us are aware of the concept of copyrights. But, did you know that there exists a practice of ‘copyleft’ too? To know more about it, read further.
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