High Court of Delhi | Justice S. Ravindra Bhat | Date of Decision: 17.09.2008 Case Number: IA No. 2352/2008 in CS (OS) 344/2008 BACKGROUND The plaintiffs comprise a Delaware-incorporated company and its subsidiaries incorporated in the United Kingdom and India, engaged in the manufacture and marketing of toys, games and consumer products. Among their well-known […]
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Chapter VIII of The Copyright Act, 1957 i.e. rights of broadcasting organisation and of performers in section 37 deals with Broadcast reproduction right and in section 38 with Performer’s right. The Copyright Act, 1957 is principally understood as a statute that protects authors, composers, writers, painters and filmmakers who create original works Yet creative industries
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The administration of copyright in creative industries has never been a matter that individual rights holders can manage alone. A composer whose work is performed across thousands of radio stations, hotel lobbies, restaurants and streaming platforms simultaneously cannot possibly negotiate individual licences with each user, monitor unauthorised performances or collect royalties from each source. It
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High Court of Delhi at New Delhi | Decided: 13 April 2009CS (OS) No. 1682 of 2006Bench: Hon’ble Mr. Justice S. Ravindra BhatCitation: 2009 SCC OnLine Del 835 | (2009) 40 PTC 694 (Del) Background Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. and its associated and affiliated companies are among the world’s largest producers and distributors of cinematographic
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High Court of Allahabad | Decided: 16 July 1980 First Appeals No. 8 of 1975 & No. 9 of 1975 Bench: Division Bench of the High Court of Allahabad Citation: AIR 1981 All 200 | 1980 SCC OnLine All 444 Background Late Sri Ram Naresh Tripathi was an eminent Hindi scholar, poet and litterateur of
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The protection of computer programs under intellectual property law is one of the most consequential and contested questions in the history of modern legal systems. Software drives virtually every sector of the contemporary economy – from financial systems and medical devices to communications infrastructure and consumer entertainment. The legal framework that governs who owns software,
High Court of Delhi at New Delhi | Decided: 28 May 2009 RFA (OS) No. 25/2006 Bench: Division Bench of the High Court of Delhi Citation: 2009 (40) PTC 519 (Del) | 2009 SCC OnLine Del 1647 Background Microfibres Inc. is an American corporation engaged in the manufacture and commercial sale of upholstery fabrics, the
Music is among the oldest and most universal forms of human expression and it is also among the most legally complex categories of creative work that copyright law is called upon to protect. A single commercially released song involves, in the ordinary case, at least three distinct creative contributions – the musical composition created by
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High Court of Delhi at New Delhi | Decided: 29 July 2011 IA No. 15781/2008 & IA No. 3085/2009 in CS (OS) No. 2682/2008 Bench: Hon’ble Mr. Justice Manmohan Singh Citation: 2011 (48) PTC 49 (Del) Background Super Cassettes Industries Limited, popularly known as T-Series, is one of India’s largest music labels and film production
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Few creative works demand as much capital, coordinate as many individual contributions, or generate as much commercial activity as a cinematograph film. A feature film involves the labour of writers, directors, composers, lyricists, performers, cinematographers, editors, sound designers, visual effects artists and hundreds of others whose individual creative contributions are assembled, over months or years,
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