Versace’s medusa motif, the Vera Wang wedding dress, Louis Vuitton handbag – all these are products of applied intellectual creativity and skill in the fashion industry. No one doubts the tremendous value of intellectual capital to the creation and marketing of products in the fashion industry, be it high fashion or ready-to-wear. Yet many [...]
Need for The Copyright Act (Amendment) Bill, 2012: The Copyright Act (Amendment) Bill, 2012 which has been pending in Parliament for the last two years, was passed by the Lok Sabha on 22nd May ,2012 with overwhelming support from members of all parties & opposition . Human Resources Development Minister Kapil Sibal said the [...]
Protecting Celebrity rights under IP laws is a significant development in the field of IPR. The identity of an individual refers to all distinct, recognizable elements which make up a particular persona, including the individual’s physical appearance, image or likeness, name, voice, signature, style, photograph, gestures, recognizable attire, look and facial features .A public [...]
The Controversy: Famous lead singer of band Euphoria, Palash Sen alleged composer of the anthem of much hyped show hosted by Amir Khan ‘Satyamev Jayate ‘ for infringement of chants from one of the band’s old song “Satyameva Jayate “ Singer alleged that the chorus version of the song of Amir Khan’s debutant TV [...]
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. [...]
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 [...]
