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 […]
Social media has fundamentally transformed the relationship between copyright law and everyday human behaviour. Before the internet, the act of reproducing, distributing or communicating a copyrighted work to the public was largely confined to publishers, broadcasters and commercial enterprises with the infrastructure to do so at scale. Copyright infringement was, for the most part, a
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Delhi High Court | Manmohan J. | 1 July 2019 AIRONLINE 2019 DEL 972 | (2019) 262 DLT 734 | CS(COMM) 753/2017 Background MRF Limited (plaintiff), a leading tyre manufacturer operating in approximately sixty-five countries, launched a tyre series called MRF NV Series “REVZ” in June 2015. To promote this product, the plaintiff produced an
High Court of Delhi | 28 February 2014 CS (OS) 3193 of 2012 & CC No. 49 of 2013, IA Nos. 10389-90 of 2013, 10638 of 2013, 20025 of 2013, 18788 of 2013 Hon’ble Mr. Justice S. Muralidhar BACKGROUND The plaintiffs in the present matter are Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. (“Teva”), Yeda Research and Development
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Delhi High Court | Mukta Gupta J. | 12 July 2018 Case Numbers: CS(COMM) 24/2016; CS(COMM) 436/2017 Justice Mukta Gupta BACKGROUND The plaintiff, Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V., a Netherlands-incorporated multinational corporation, instituted two suits alleging infringement of its Indian Patent No. 184753 relating to DVD video player technology. The patent, dated 13 February 1995, pertains
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High Court of Madras | Decided: 28 February 1958 C.S. Nos. 54 of 1955 & 215 of 1954 Presiding Judge: Justice Rajagopala Ayyangar Background Two suits were tried together before the Madras High Court as they raised common questions of law relating to copyright infringement, though the facts of each were different. In C.S. No.
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Supreme Court of India | Decided: 26 July 2018 Civil Appeal Nos. 2937–2942 & 2943–2944 of 2018 Bench: Hon’ble Mr. Justice A.K. Sikri & Hon’ble Mr. Justice Ashok Bhushan Citation: AIR 2018 SC 3516 | (2018) 9 SCC 183 Background Karnataka Co-operative Milk Producers Federation Limited, the respondent, is a cooperative federation of milk producers
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Delhi High Court | Dr. M.K. Sharma J. | 26 May 1999 Case Number: Suit No. 2391/1998 | Citation: AIR 2000 Delhi 23 | 80 (1999) DLT 56 | 1999 IV AD (Delhi) 613 BACKGROUND The plaintiff, Standipack Private Limited, claimed to be the patentee of a pouch designed for storage and dispensing of liquids
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Delhi High Court | Gita Mittal J. | 25 May 2007 | Citation: 142 (2007) DLT 724 | 2007 (35) PTC 95 (Del) | MIPR 2007 (2) 269 BACKGROUND The plaintiffs, Cadbury India Limited and its associated entity, are engaged in the manufacture and sale of confectionery and chocolate products in India, forming part of
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Every grant of exclusive rights must, in a society that values both the reward of creative effort and the freedom of public access to culture and knowledge, have a defined limit. Copyright is no exception. The rights that the Copyright Act, 1957 confers upon authors, producers, performers and broadcasters are not permanent. They subsist for
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