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 […]
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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
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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
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(RFA (OS) No. 21 of 2009) with The Chancellor, Masters and Scholars of the University of Oxford v. Narendra Publishing House & Ors. (FAO (OS) No. 458 of 2008) High Court of Delhi at New Delhi | Decided: 3 August 2011 Bench: Hon’ble Mr. Justice A.K. Sikri & Hon’ble Mr. Justice Suresh Kait Reportable Background
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Supreme Court of India | Decided: 15 October 2015 Criminal Appeal No. 258 of 2013 with Criminal Appeal No. 259 of 2013 Bench: Hon’ble Mr. Justice S.A. Bobde & Hon’ble Mr. Justice Madan B. Lokur Reportable Background The respondent No. 1, Shyam Vithalrao Devkatta, claimed copyright in a synopsis of a story he had written
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High Court of Delhi at New Delhi | Decided: 24 August 2015 CS (OS) 1892/2006 Bench: Hon’ble Mr. Justice Manmohan Singh Background The plaintiffs, Sholay Media and Entertainment Pvt. Ltd. and its co-plaintiff, are private limited companies engaged in the business of producing, exhibiting and distributing cinematograph films. The plaintiffs claimed to be the copyright
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High Court of Delhi at New Delhi | Decided: 9 December 2016 RFA (OS) 81/2016 Bench: Division Bench Hon’ble Mr. Justice Pradeep Nandrajog & Hon’ble Mr. Justice Yogesh Khanna Background The appellants (plaintiffs before the learned Single Judge) were five academic publishers: Oxford University Press, Cambridge University Press (UK), Cambridge University Press India Pvt. Ltd.,
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
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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