Category: Copyright
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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Ownership of Musical works in Cinematographic films
August 5, 2022
Biswajit Sarkar - IP Law Firm India
Post time: 12:30 pm
Producers of cinematographic films use musical works to invoke a range of feelings which improves the overall experience of the audience. It creates a sense of rhythm and commentary to the segments and scenes which helps shape the emotional responses that make the cinematic experience
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The Doctrine of Joint Authorship
August 4, 2022
Biswajit Sarkar - IP Law Firm India
Post time: 4:46 pm
It is fairly common to come across works which are the creations of multiple persons and authorship vests in all such people that contributed towards the creation of that work. Some common examples include two or more authors contributing towards writing a research paper or
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Role of Copyright societies in India
August 1, 2022
Biswajit Sarkar - IP Law Firm India
Post time: 7:15 pm
The copyright societies have an important role in the collective management of copyright. They are legal bodies that serve the interests of the copyright owners, users as well as the public. The Supreme Court in Entertainment Network Ltd. v. Super Cassette Industries Ltd. observed that
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Compulsory licensing in Copyright
July 28, 2022
Biswajit Sarkar - IP Law Firm India
Post time: 2:37 pm
What is a Compulsory License? Compulsory licenses are permissions from the government that allows someone else to use the copyright of the owner without his consent. In this article, we will look at compulsory licensing in Copyright and under what conditions a compulsory license is
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Copyright and Broadcaster’s rights
July 27, 2022
Biswajit Sarkar - IP Law Firm India
Post time: 12:37 pm
What is a broadcast? The Copyright Act, 1957 originally used the term ‘radio-diffusion’ under section 2(v) to include communication to the public through any means of wireless diffusion in sound or visual form or both. Later, the 1983 amendment replaced the term ‘radio diffusion’ for
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Copyright and User Generated Content
July 25, 2022
Biswajit Sarkar - IP Law Firm India
Post time: 3:11 pm
Remixing a song, streaming gameplay on youtube and collaborating with other artists on TikTok have become mainstream and garner millions of views. However, this poses an important question to copyright owners whose songs, games and other copyrightable subject matter are used without giving any monetary
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