Author name: Gaurangi Kapoor

Ramadan Mubarak and Happy Holi!  Coming back to Bells & Whistles, this week marked the final round of SpicyIP – CIPAM, DPIIT’s National Blog Writing Competition held on 27th Feb at Vanijya Bhawan, New Delhi with a stellar panel of judges – Justice Prabha Sridevan, Dr. Zakir Thomas,  Ms. Shwetasree Majumder and Prof. (Dr.) V K Unni. NLU Delhi’s team of Priysha Malviya Arjit Bansal and Khyati Chaturvedi brought the trophy home! And the team of Rajiv Gandhi National University of Law

Welcome back to another week of Bells & Whistles.As always, we’ve rounded up a mix of developments, opportunities, and thoughtful reads from across the IP world along with a Bell of the Week that’s well worth revisiting. Bell of the Week: Copyright (Amendment) Act, 2012 Some bells don’t just chime, they rewrite the terms of who gets to be heard. This week, we’re ringing the bell for the Copyright (Amendment) Act, 2012. Often spoken about in doctrinal terms, the 2012 amendment marked

Welcome back to another week of Bells and Whistles. We’re starting this week with some exciting updates from the SpicyIP community! The finalists for the first National Policy Brief Competition on Intellectual Property and Innovation have now been announced. Congratulations are in order for everyone who has been shortlisted. Click here to know more about it! Also SpicyIP Summer School 2026 is opening for applications soon so kindly mark your calendars for June 20-28th of 2026. And with that, let’s ring this week’s bell!

Welcome back to another week of Bells & Whistles. As always, we’ve rounded up a mix of developments, opportunities, and thoughtful reads from across the IP world along with a Bell of the Week that’s well worth revisiting. Bell of the Week: Professor Anil Gupta Some bells don’t just chime, they change what we choose to hear. This week’s Bell of the Week is Prof. Anil Gupta, the mind behind the Honey Bee Network, who gently but powerfully shifted the lens of

Welcome back to another week of Bells & Whistles. As always, we’ve rounded up a mix of developments, opportunities, and thoughtful reads from across the IP world along with a Bell of the Week that’s well worth revisiting. Bell of the Week “RiP: A Remix Manifesto” Some bells don’t just ring, they remix. This week, we revisit RiP: A Remix Manifesto (RiP), Brett Gaylor’s documentary that dives into remix culture, copyright and the messy, fascinating relationship between creativity and control in the

Happy Republic Day everyone! Welcome back to another week of Bells & Whistles. As always, we’ve rounded up a mix of developments, opportunities, and thoughtful reads from across the IP world along with a Bell of the Week that’s well worth revisiting. Bell of the Week: Sustainable Seed Innovations Project Some bells don’t just ring, they root themselves in the soil. This week’s Bell of the Week turns to the Sustainable Seed Innovations Project, a UK – India research collaboration that

Welcome back to another week of Bells & Whistles! We’re kicking things off with fresh uploads on SpicyIP TV, including the Book Review Symposium on Intellectual Property Debates in South Asia: Law, Development and Practice (Bloomsbury, 2025) edited by Dr. Pratyush Nath Upreti, with Shama Mahajan, Akshat Agrawal  and Prof. Ishupal Singh Kang as guest speakers (recording available on LinkedIn and YouTube). If you haven’t had a chance to watch yet, consider this your nudge and plenty more that’s waiting for you on the channel.

Welcome back to another week of Bells & Whistles! As always, we’ve rounded up a mix of developments, opportunities, and thoughtful reads from across the IP world along with a Bell of the Week that’s well worth revisiting. Bell of the Week: Sarai’s FLOSS Initiative This week’s Bell doesn’t just chime, it opens up access. We’re spotlighting the FLOSS (Free/Libre and Open Source Software) work of the Sarai Programme, an early and influential effort to make free software meaningful and usable

Welcome to the first Bells & Whistles newsletter of 2026! As we ease into the new year, a quick reminder that this is also the time when SpicyIP looks back before moving forward. Every year, we put together an Annual Review capturing the most significant IP developments, and the 2025 review is now out. It brings together some of the most important judicial decisions, policy shifts, and regulatory conversations from the past year. It’s worth a slow read or a deeper dive, perfect