Author name: J. Sai Deepak

Early this month, the Canadian Copyright Board came out with a decision on royalties required to be paid by satellite radio services, Sirius Satellite Radio and Canadian Satellite Radio, pegging it at 6.2% of the revenues earned from the use of the repertoire of three copyright collectives namely, Society of Composers, Authors and Music Publishers of Canada (SOCAN), the Neighbouring Rights Collective of Canada (NRCC) and CMRRA/SODRAC Inc. (CSI). The decision was given following the filing of applications for proposed […]

In the last two posts, 2 US decisions on copyright protection to characters were discussed and having deliberated to a certain extent on the topic, it would be of much more use to look at the Indian position. I thank Ms.Swathi Sukumar for directing me to the judgment delivered in 1996 by the Delhi High Court in Raja Pocket Books (Plaintiff) v. Radha Pocket Books (Defendant) which dealt with copyright protection for characters. The plaintiff in this case sought temporary

In the last post, I started off with a discussion of US cases on copyright protection to characters and raised a few questions hoping to find answers as the discussion proceeds. The next case which I shall be dealing with is Ideal Toy Corporation v. Kenner Products and Twentieth Century Fox (1977). The judgment is pretty clear and enlightens one to the fact that US Courts probably have a tough time segregating the points of jurisdiction of Federal and State

Personally, after reading Prashant and Kruttika’s several pithy and insightful posts, I find copyright law much more interesting than patents. Having rarely blogged on copyright law, I was tempted to take up a topic which allowed for a fair amount of shoring up of the fundamentals- copyright protection to characters;so if I err, which i am sure I am bound to, I am all for correction. Broadly speaking, there are two ways in which one may embark on this topic-