Advocate General Yves Bot advice to the EU's top court that programming language can not be copyrighted will surely affect IT industry. He has compared programming language to the language used by novelist and arufued that programming languages are mere diffrent digital vocabularies such as HTML, JAVA used to make computer perform certain tasks. [...]
The present financial budget has brought in a host of good news for the pharma industry with tax sops serving as the perfect holi gift from the Government. There seems to be a reason to rejoice for the pharma industry as the weighted deduction on in-house R&D expenditure has been hiked from 150% to [...]
Indian Film Industry-Copyright Infringers or Inspirations? On July 7, 1896, India's first cinematographic film was shown in Mumbai. Today, India's mammoth film industry produces more movies than any other country in the world and employs over two million people. In recent years, nearly eight out of every ten Bollywood scripts have been “inspired” by [...]
Hollywood and Bollywood linked arms with the announcement of a coalition among the Motion Picture Association of America and seven Indian companies to tackle counterfeiting in one of the world's largest film markets. The alliance comes as Hollywood tries to tap global markets more aggressively and as Indian movie studios grow in size and [...]
The Google Book Search Project, whereby Google has created a virtual repository of online books by scanning them has been in the news recently for copyright violations. Class actions have been filed against Google in US, China and even Germany and France. The digital library initiative, though making it convenient for the Internet users [...]
Protecting the legacy of the ritzy brand Gianni Versace S.p.A through patents and copyrights was perhaps the most important strategy adopted by Donatella after Gianni Versace died dramatically on July 15, 1997. Brand Versace got its time-honoured 'Medusa Head' logo protected in 1998. And now the brand's logo is safe till 2013. An artist [...]
