Devika Agarwal

SpicyIP Tidbit: First Rajinikanth, now Sridevi

October 17, 2014 / By Devika Agarwal / Copyright, Privacy

Exactly one month ago, Superstar Rajinikanth had successfully obtained an order granting stay of a film titled ‘Main Hoon Rajinikanth’; Rajinikanth had alleged that the producer of the film had not sought the actor’s permission before using his name in the title of the film. Rajinikanth had sought the stay order on the ground that the film’s producers were wrongfully exploiting Rajinikanth’s name and the film if released would cause damage to the actor’s reputation and goodwill. (You can read […]

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SpicyIP Tidbit: Harvard Blue Book is in the Public Domain!

October 17, 2014 / By Devika Agarwal / Copyright

According to a letter written by Christopher Jon Springman (Professor, NYU School of Law representing Carl Malamud) to Peter M. Brody of Ropes & Gray LLP (law firm representing Harvard Law Review Association), ‘Public Resource. Org’ (an organization founded by Carl Malamud which shares and publishes public-domain materials in the United States) would soon be publishing a public domain version of the Harvard Blue Book. Mr. Springman, in his letter, notes that the copyright on the 10th edition of The

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SpicyIP Tidbit: International Open Access Week from 20th to 26th October, 2014

October 17, 2014 / By Devika Agarwal / Copyright

The International Open Access Week, now in its 7th year, would be celebrated from 20th to 26th October this year. Open Access in its traditional sense referred to ‘unrestricted online access to peer-reviewed scholarly research’ in the context of publishing but the term ‘open access’ is steadily being applied to other related concepts such as ‘open education’. We, at SpicyIP, have always hailed Open Access initiatives and we covered quite a few OA initiatives on the blog recently (see here and here).

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SpicyIP Belated Weekly Review (29th September to 5th October)

October 10, 2014 / By Devika Agarwal / Others

Some very interesting IP developments took place last week. SpicyIP Highlight of the Week! The SpicyIP Highlight of the Week was Swaraj’s post on the recent cap on NPPA’s power to control prices of certain drugs in public interest (the development had been reported by Madhulika earlier); when the Government announced the withdrawal of NPPA’s powers, there was considerable panic that the price of drugs (including that of a cancer-drug called Glivec) which hitherto had been controlled by NPPA would

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MAELS 2014- 3rd Annual Media, Advertising and Entertainment Legal Summit

October 10, 2014 / By Devika Agarwal / Event, Sponsored

SpicyIP is pleased to announce the 3rd Annual Media, Advertising and Entertainment Legal Summit (MAELS 2014). Details are as follows: An aggressive industry research that Lex Witness conducted within the various stakeholders of the industry reflects a lot of ambiguity in the understanding of the current legal & regulatory regime. The 3rd Annual Edition of Media, Advertising &Entertainment Legal Summit 2014 promises to brainstorm on the challenges faced by the Media, Advertising & Entertainment Industry and we shall together look

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MAELS 2014- 3rd Annual Media, Advertising and Entertainment Legal Summit

October 3, 2014 / By Devika Agarwal / Event, Sponsored

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MAELS 2014- 3rd Annual Media, Advertising and Entertainment Legal Summit

September 26, 2014 / By Devika Agarwal / Uncategorized

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Spicyip Tidbit: ‘Swayam’, A Portal for Online Learning Launched; US And Top Indian Universities To Offer Online Courses

September 26, 2014 / By Devika Agarwal / Uncategorized

The Union Cabinet recently approved of the signing of a Joint Declaration of Intent between Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD) & United States wherein the US universities would be invited to offer online courses with certification in various disciplines on SWAYAM (Student Webs of Active-Learning for Young Aspiring Minds). Aptly named ‘Swayam’, a Hindi word which means ‘on one’s own’, the portal is India’s Massive Online Open Courseware (MOOC) platform. Apart from hosting their courseware online, US universities

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SpicyIP Tibdit: The Bombay High Court recognizes Candy Crush Saga’s IPR

King.com, the company which owns intellectual property rights over Candy Crush, was recently embroiled in a copyright infringement suit against the Apeejay Surendra Group, a business conglomerate in India. King.com (which was represented by law firm Khaitan & Co.) had filed a copyright infringement suit against Apeejay Surendra Group after King discovered that the latter had used the images of King’s Candy Crush game; the images had been used in online advertisements for a live music gig to be held

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