Category: Copyright
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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Copyright in Registered Designs
July 22, 2022
Biswajit Sarkar - IP Law Firm India
Post time: 12:00 pm
Introduction Copyright in registered designs means that the author has the exclusive rights to apply a design to any article in any class. The proprietor of a registered design has the exclusive right to apply such design to all such classes. Copyright in its general
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Best practices to avoid copyright infringement
July 19, 2022
Biswajit Sarkar - IP Law Firm India
Post time: 4:30 pm
What is copyright infringement? Unauthorized use of a work protected by copyright is referred to as copyright infringement. Thus, it is the unauthorised use of someone else’s copyrighted work that violates the owner’s rights, such as the right to reproduce, distribute, exhibit, or perform the
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Remedies for infringement of copyright
July 11, 2022
Biswajit Sarkar - IP Law Firm India
Post time: 4:43 pm
In this blog, we look at the remedies for infringement of copyright. The remedies are both civil and criminal in nature.
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The first NFT copyright infringement decision handed down in China
June 24, 2022
Biswajit Sarkar - IP Law Firm India
Post time: 11:30 am
Background (NFT Copyright) The case focused around a comic image depicting a chubby tiger receiving a vaccine shot, which was one of many artworks from the popular cartoon series “Fat Tiger” released on Weibo, China’s principal social media site, by a Chinese artist. Shenzhen Qice
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