A Bangalore civil court has issued an O.39 R.1 ex parte interim injunction against Chetan Bhagat and his publishers restraining them from selling copies of his recent book One Indian Girl. According to the report, Anvita Bajpai, sued Chetan Bhagat alleging the book is plagiarized from her story Drawing Parallels. Copyright rule served as a [...]
When gossip site posted a photo of pregnant looking Beyonce, it probably didn’t anticipate much fallout. A major copyright decision that could imperil the sites business model and undermine legal defense used by other websites that depend on use content. The decision handed over ny the federal appeal court in California, came as a [...]
Google, Bing, the British Phonographic Industry (BPI) and the Motion Pictures Association (MPA), in collaboration with the Intellectual Property Office (IPO) have recently entered into what is considered a ‘landmark agreement’- the ‘Code of Practice on Search and Copyright’ (The Code), – towards curbing piracy and promoting the use of copyrighted content from legitimate [...]
The Delhi high court set aside an interim injunction order imposed against biscuit maker Britannia passed by a single judge, thereby allowing it to manufacture and sell its digestive biscuit Nutri Choice Zero. Britannia was involved in a copyright infringement litigation\ related to the packaging of the biscuit with foods to hotels conglomerate ITC which sells one of its own brands [...]
Wonder if S P Balasubrahmanyam is right now remembering this breezy number he sang for Ilayaraaja back in 1989 for the iconic Kamal Haasan film Appu Raja. The lyrics of the hit song went like this. But Ilayaraja, the doyen of music from south India, does not want Balasubrahmanyan, popularly referred to as SPB, to jhoom [...]
The notion that online platforms should not be held responsible for the infringing acts of their users is something entrenched in law in many regions, including the United States and Europe. In Australia, however, a perceived drafting error in the implementation of the Australia – US Free Trade Agreement (AUSFTA) means that safe harbor [...]
