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[Part II] Assessing DHC’s Finding on Piercing the Corporate Veil and Damages in the Amazon Case

SpicyIP

Further, mere ownership and control is not a sufficient ground to pierce the corporate veil, it should be shown that control and impropriety by the defendant resulted in deprivation of legal rights, as noted by the Supreme Court in Balwant Rai Saluja v. Intermediary liability is already addressed under Section 79 of the IT Act, 2000.

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SpicyIP Weekly Review (January 27 – February 2)

SpicyIP

Prabha Sridevan, Judge, MHC (2000-2010) and Chairperson, IPAB (2011-2013) was recently interviewed by SpicyIP Doctoral Fellow Malobika Sen as part of her doctoral research. The Court noted that Kirloskar Proprietary Ltd, as the registered proprietor, had superior ownership rights compared to the plaintiffs status as a registered user.

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Cybersquatting Web3 Domain Names

Traverse Legal Blog

The ACPA is a federal law that brought trademark enforcement to the internet in the year 2000. The ACPA was passed in 2000 to make it illegal for anyone except the trademark owner to register, use, or traffic in a domain name with a bad faith intent to profit. That was 1998. No GoDaddy. No escrows. No Versign.

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Advent of AI Voice Generation and Threat to Personality Rights

IP and Legal Filings

Remedies Available under Existing Laws There are no specific laws that deal with the infringement of IP Rights of individuals whose identity has been impersonated through the use of Artificial Intelligence, but provisions of the IT Act 2000 and existing laws under the Trademarks Act, 1999 and the Copyright Act, 1957 come to the aid of the plaintiff.

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A Brief Thematic Review of Non-Fungible Tokens and their Copyright

IP and Legal Filings

Due to the recurrent copyright difficulties, which have a significant impact on an individual’s business interest, it is imperative to preserve the ownership rights of digital works. The media industry as a whole encourages creativity and innovation, and copyright is crucial for digital media platforms.

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How to use a takedown notice

CopyrightsWorld

The DMCA’s principal was adopted by the European Union in the Electronic Commerce Directive 2000. Along with Google, most social media have their own services for copyright infringement and takedown requests. Whatever you decide to do, one thing is for sure: You will need strong evidence of copyright ownership.

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Elucidating the Economics of Music Streaming Recommendations

The IPKat

The report also urged Universal and Warner to waive unrecouped debts of legacy contracts, in line with some independent labels which already had a policy of forgiving debts after a certain period of time and since giving evidence in the inquiry Sony announced that it would pay through on existing unrecouped balances for deals made before 2000.

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