In-depth analytical articles on Indian Copyright law including prosecution,enforcement, statutory interpretation and case developments.
A poem written by ChatGPT. A painting produced by Midjourney from a two-line prompt. A news article drafted by a large language model trained on millions of copyrighted sources. A film score composed entirely by an algorithmic system without a human composer touching an instrument. These are not hypothetical scenarios from a speculative future; they […]
AI-Generated Content and Copyright in India – Who Is the Author? Read More »
Technology has always unsettled the creative economy and the law has always chased to catch up. But no technological development in the history of the entertainment industry has created as direct, as immediate and as commercially devastating a threat to individual performers as generative artificial intelligence voice cloning and deepfake video synthesis. These technologies do
Voice Cloning, Deepfakes and Performers’ Rights Under Indian Copyright Law Read More »
India carries within its borders one of the most extraordinary concentrations of living folk and traditional artistic heritage on earth. Madhubani painting from Bihar, Warli art from Maharashtra’s tribal communities, Pattachitra scroll painting from Odisha, Baul music from the rural riverbanks of Bengal and Bangladesh, Gond art from Madhya Pradesh, Bharatanatyam and Kuchipuri and Odissi
Copyright in Traditional and Folk Art Forms Under Indian Law Read More »
The enforcement of intellectual property rights has never been straightforward in any jurisdiction, but the particular challenge of acting against infringers who cannot be identified, located, or who are likely to destroy evidence or dissipate assets before a court can reach them has demanded a category of remedies that go well beyond the conventional interim
John Doe orders in Indian IP law – Anton Piller, Mareva and identity-unknown defendants Read More »
Mergers and acquisitions are among the most consequential transactions in commercial life. They involve the transfer of business value assets, revenue streams, operational capabilities, market positions from one set of owners to another, and they carry with them all the risks and liabilities that attach to the business being acquired. In an economy increasingly defined
India is one of the largest film-producing nations in the world. The Indian film industry encompassing Bollywood, the Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam, Kannada, Bengali, Marathi and numerous other regional language industries produces more films annually than any other country and commands a domestic and diaspora audience of enormous size and passionate engagement. The commercial value generated
Among the most persistent misconceptions in Indian intellectual property practice is the belief that copyright must be registered to exist. Authors, artists, software developers, filmmakers, and businesses that create original works routinely ask whether they need to register their copyright before they can enforce it, and whether an unregistered work attracts the full protection of
Copyright Registration in India – Procedure and Evidentiary Value Read More »
International intellectual property law rests on a web of multilateral treaties and conventions that establish minimum standards of protection, define reciprocal obligations among member states and create the framework within which domestic copyright systems operate. At the centre of this web, for copyright, is the Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works
Visual creativity occupies a distinctive place in the copyright landscape. A photograph taken in a fraction of a second, a painting developed over months, a sculpture carved from stone, an architectural elevation drafted with precision each of these represents an act of creative expression that the law recognises and protects, yet each raises questions about
Copyright in Photographs and Artistic Works in India Read More »
The relationship between an author and a publisher is among the oldest and most commercially consequential in the creative economy. It is a relationship built on a fundamental asymmetry: the author possesses the creative work and the copyright that protects it, while the publisher possesses the infrastructure, expertise, distribution networks and capital required to bring