IP and Legal Filings

MARCH 28, 2024

Introduction The year 2023 was a high for Indian cinema- with the love of the country for the big screen soaring high with box office numbers. 1] The Copyright Act protects certain types of works, which are included in Section 13. The appreciation and experimentation of OTT content have shown that India Cinema is back again.

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Velocity of Content

MARCH 16, 2023

As a person involved in copyright on a daily basis, I’ve observed a number of events and requests for comment over the last few years on the issue of whether artificial intelligence (AI) systems can be “authors” in the copyright sense (or inventors of patents). This article was originally published in The Scholarly Kitchen.

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SpicyIP

DECEMBER 20, 2023

We stand on the cusp of bidding farewell to 2023 with just 10 days remaining! So, before 2023 turns into yesteryear, let’s see what the past Novembers on SpicyIP (2005 to present) have offered. Although India now has the Digital Personal Data Protection Act 2023 , it doesn’t provide IP protection to databases.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

In order to train their technologies, should AI companies be allowed to use works under copyright protection without consent? Such uses, they argue, constitute copyright infringement. As in the present context, the initial concern of copyright holders was that their consent had not been acquired by Google prior to scanning their works.

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The IPKat

MAY 22, 2023

This post is brought to you by Oprah Nwobike , who is a lawyer and doctoral researcher at Brunel University London focusing on copyright and artificial intelligence in the music industry, under the supervision of IPKat's Dr Hayleigh Bosher. This has become a lingering question in the minds of consumers of online content.

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The IPKat

JANUARY 24, 2023

The IPKat has received and is pleased to host the following legislative update on the new Ukrainian Copyright Law from Kateryna Militsyna and Liubov Maidanyk (both Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv). In July the Ukrainian parliament approved one of the legislative proposals on copyright and related rights as a basis.

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IP and Legal Filings

JANUARY 22, 2024

Introduction The Intellectual property laws are designed in such a way that not only reward the creator of his intellectual creation thereby incentivising other creators for further innovation, while balancing the rights of the creator with the right of the society to access information or knowledge. Zafar Mahfooz Nomani, 2023).

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SpicyIP

AUGUST 6, 2024

December 2023 saw artists from South Africa to Europe, and Japan to the United States unite to safeguard their professional and personal identities against the misuse of AI-generated voices. For instance, ChatGPT was trained on copyrighted books by J.K. Rowling, who sued the company over copyright infringement.

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SpicyIP

DECEMBER 30, 2023

As 2023 comes to an end, in line with our annual tradition, we take stock of the top IP developments that occurred this year. We’ve tried to represent a diversity of subject matter also in this list, so it’s a mixed bag of cases dealing with patents, trademarks, copyright law etc. A special thanks to Mr. G. Nataraj, Ms.

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The IPKat

MAY 29, 2023

This Kat is pleased to review the “ Overlapping Intellectual Property rights ”, edited by Neil Wilkof [full disclosure: a member of the IPKat team], Shamnad Basheer, and Irene Calboli (OUP, 2023, 864 pp.). Ochoa authors Chapter 9, which is devoted to the overlaps between copyright and the rights of publicity or personality rights.

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IP and Legal Filings

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Protecting personality rights has become a growing problem in India due to deepfakes, morphed pictures, etc. In between these problems came Delhi High Court’s judgement in favour of Anil Kapoor wanting to get personality rights. For every one of the twenty-one defendants, the plaintiff provided examples.

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