Author name: Prashant Reddy

T. Prashant Reddy graduated from the National Law School of India University, Bangalore, with a B.A.LLB (Hons.) degree in 2008. He later graduated with a LLM degree (Law, Science & Technology) from the Stanford Law School in 2013. Prashant has worked with law firms in Delhi and in academia in India and Singapore. He is also co-author of the book Create, Copy, Disrupt: India's Intellectual Property Dilemmas (OUP).

NLSIR puts out call for papers

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The National Law School of India Review is now accepting submissions for its upcoming issue – Volume 24(1). The National Law School of India Review (NLSIR) is the flagship law journal of the National Law School of India University, Bangalore, India. The NLSIR is a bi-annual, student edited, peer-reviewed law journal providing incisive legal scholarship on issues that are at the forefront of contemporary legal discourse. Over the last 20 years, the NLSIR has regularly featured articles authored by judges […]

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Copyright Office loses the file pertaining to the International Copyright Order, 1999

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In yet another stunning response from the Copyright Office, to a RTI application filed by me, I’ve been informed that the entire file pertaining to the International Copyright Order, 1999 has simply disappeared from the Copyright Office. The ostensible reason provided by the Copyright Office is as follows “The file pertaining to the International Copyright Order, 1999 is not readily available and seems to be misplaced due to shifting of our office from Curzon Road Barracks to Parliament Street, New

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Madras High Court restrains infringement of ‘mobile ringtones’

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In yet another high-profile ringtone dispute, the Madras High Court on the 28th of July, 2011 has granted ex-parte interim injunctions to Five Star Audio & Star Music, restraining Suriya Movies, MG Movie Productions and AS Combine from using or making any claims to the ownership in the sound-recordings and underlying musical and literary works of the films ‘Khushi’, Dhool’, ‘Ghilli’, ‘7/G Rainbow Colony’ and ‘Boys’. The order is available over here. Apparently the cause of the litigation is a

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Guest Post: Bollywood continues to battle over scripts

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Tania Sarcar, a student at NUJS who has regularly guest blogged for us on the IP battles dogging Bollywood, over here and here, has sent us another post on a new dispute – this time over the movie Jail. IP squabble over ‘Jail’ By Tania Sarcar Another case involving the Film Writers’ Association has come to the forefront. This time it is in regard to Madhur Bhandarkar’s 2009 film – Jail. Surendra Tanwar, who is a scriptwriter, is set to

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Govt. repeats same mistakes with new Copyright Board

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The Ministry of HRD has issued a press release on the PIB website stating that the Copyright Board has been reconstituted with retired Justice Ramesh Chandra Chopra as the Chairman of the Copyright Board along with 2 Joint-Secretaries of the Central Government, seven Law Secretaries of State Governments and three Directors/Vice Chancellors of National Law Institutes and Directors of Indian Law Institute and Indian Society of International Law, New Delhi. The term of the previous Copyright Board headed by Dr.

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Guest Post: Bollywood battles over scripts

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Tania Sarcar, a student of NUJS, Kolkata who earlier blogged for us, has sent in this well researched piece on the various copyright disputes between script-writers and producers/directors. Bollywood battles over scriptsBy Tania Sarcar Yet another controversy involving copyright infringement has come up in Bollywood. This time 75 year old painter-author Aabid Surti has filed a case of copyright infringement before the Bombay High Court against the makers of the 2010 film Atithi Tum Kab Jaoge on the grounds that

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Does Section 62 of the Copyright Act, 1957 apply to foreign copyright owners?

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One of the peculiarities of the Copyright Act, 1957 is Section 62 which provides copyright owners and their licensees an exception to the normal rules of jurisdiction enshrined in Section 20 of the Code of Civil Procedure, 1908. Section 134 of the Trade Marks Act, 1999 is similar to this. According to the CPC, which usually governs civil litigation, the plaintiff can file a civil suit only in the court within whose jurisdiction the defendant resides or the court within

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The ‘standard form’ injunctions of the Delhi High Court in software piracy cases

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One of the main complaints against the ex-parte injunctions granted to PPL and IPRS by the Delhi High Court has been the lack of consistency in the wording of the ex-parte injunctions and the lack of protection for the defendants. Often the relief depends on which judge is hearing the matter and we’ve therefore had situations where different judges grant different orders in the same week i.e. one grants an ex-parte injunction while the other denies the same. We’ve blogged

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Supreme Court refuses to stay the judgment restraining Hilton from threatening Hilltone

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Several newspapers such as the Mint and the ET have recently reported on how the Supreme Court has rejected Hilton’s appeal against an adverse judgment passed by a District Court in Rajasthan last year. We have blogged previously about the judgment over here and here. It is likely though that both newspapers have been slightly inaccurate in their reporting. Both news reports seem to suggest that the order of the Supreme Court upholds the decision of the District Court. A

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Tracking PPL’s New Year litigation – Will it continue to repeat itself?

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I’m sure most of us are rather saturated with this blog’s coverage of the happenings IPRS and PPL. But before these issues die the quick death that they are destined to, I would like to discuss, in this post, the massive litigation initiated by PPL against hotels and restaurants in the December of 2010 over the music that these venues play for ‘New Years’ celebrations. On the 29th of December, 2010 the Copyright Society for the public performance of ‘sound

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