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Whose Copyright Stands Tall? Looking at Saregama India v Vels Film International

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Explaining the recent Delhi High Court order in Saregama v. Vels on copyright ownership over the song En Iniya Pon Nilave, Tanishka Goswami writes on the implication of the decision on the composers. Tanishka is an advocate at the High Court of MP. She graduated from National Law University, Delhi in 2023 & enjoys reading and writing on copyright laws. Her previous posts can be found here. Whose Copyright Stands Tall? Looking at Saregama India v Vels Film International By Tanishka […]

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ZEO v/s EZIO: Trademark Lessons on Passing Off and the Use of House Marks

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Explaining the recent Delhi High Court decision in Gensol v. Mahindra, Tanishka Goswami analyzes the Court’s findings on the importance of house marks in infringement assessment, and the nature of the relevant market. Tanishka is an advocate at the High Court of MP. She graduated from National Law University, Delhi in 2023 & enjoys reading and writing on copyright laws. Her previous posts can be found here. ZEO v/s EZIO: Trademark Lessons on Passing Off and the Use of House

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Call for Applications: SpicyIP Tech Innovation Policy Fellowship 2025 (Apply by February 23)

/ By / Copyright, Innovation, Opportunities, Patent

Attention IP and tech enthusiasts! We are very excited to announce the SpicyIP Tech Innovation Policy Fellowship 2025!  This Fellowship is a one year programme, with the aim of contributing towards deeper understandings on the law and policy front around new technologies. It has been made possible thanks to a generous grant by FOSS United Foundation, which as many of our readers may know, does some fantastic work in the free and open source software space in India. The SpicyIP

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Call for Submissions: 1st Blog Writing Competition, 2025 Organized by CIPRA (SLS, Hyderabad) in Collaboration with SpicyIP (Submit by February 22, 2025)

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Kickstarting February with some exciting news for our readers! The Centre for Intellectual Property Research and Advocacy [CIPRA] of Symbiosis Law School, Hyderabad is organizing its first blog writing competition in collaboration with us on the theme of Literature, Journalism and IP. The top two entries will be awarded with some cash prizes and also with a chance to be published on the blog! Send your submissions by February 19 February 22 and read on below for the guidelines! Call

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ANI v. Open AI: Time to Talk About ‘Machine Unlearning’

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Discussing the relief sought by ANI in its interim injunction application against Open AI, Bharathwaj explains what might be the legal and technical problems in implementing some of the measures sought, especially in context of machine unlearning. Bharathwaj is a 3rd year LLB Student at RGSOIPL, IIT Kharagpur, and loves books and IP. His previous posts can be accessed here. Click for Part 1 and Part 2 of this series. ANI v. Open AI: Time to Talk About ‘Machine Unlearning’ By

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Taking Stock of ANI vs OpenAI Copyright Litigation- Part II

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[This post is authored by Bharathwaj Ramakrishnan. Bharathwaj is a 3rd year LLB Student at RGSOIPL, IIT Kharagpur, and loves books and IP. His previous posts can be accessed here. Click for Part 1 and Part 3 of this series] In the first part of the post, we dealt with the relevant background, wherein I stated that it is useful to see any GenAI model as being located within an AI supply chain. I also discussed the first two issues. In

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Taking Stock of ANI vs OpenAI Copyright Litigation- Part I

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[This post is authored by Bharathwaj Ramakrishnan. Bharathwaj is a 3rd year LLB Student at RGSOIPL, IIT Kharagpur, and loves books and IP. His previous posts can be accessed here. Click for Part 2 and Part 3 of this series] As perhaps all readers are aware by now, the GenAI Copyright litigations have made their presence known in India. As discussed earlier, ANI had filed a copyright lawsuit against Open AI in the Delhi High Court. After that, it looks like

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SpicyIP Tidbit: The “Evergreen” Conundrum: DHC Grants Interim Injunction to Evergreen Sweet House in a Trademark Dispute

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[This post has been authored by SpicyIP intern Aditi Agrawal. Aditi is a final-year B.A., LL.B (IPR Hons.) student at The ICFAI University, Dehradun. Her previous posts can be accessed here.] In a recent trademark dispute between Evergreen Sweet House v. JV Evergreen Sweets and Treats & Ors., the Delhi High Court on December 23 restrained the defendants from using “JV Evergreen Sweets & Treats” mark or any similar mark which is identical to the mark “Evergreen”.  In this post, I

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SpicyIP Tidbit: Delhi Police Authorized to Issue Takedown Orders for Unlawful Content

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[This post has been authored by SpicyIP intern Aditi Agrawal. Aditi is a final-year B.A., LL.B (IPR Hons.) student at The ICFAI University, Dehradun. Her previous posts can be accessed here.] On 26th December 2024, the Delhi Government issued a gazette notification (F. No. 11/24/2024/HP-II/4236-4244), designating Delhi Police as the nodal agency for regulating digital content hosted or published on intermediary platforms in the National Capital Territory of Delhi. This move, reported earlier on January 9 by Aditi Agrawal in

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Do Indian Scientists Need to Worry about CRISPR Licences?

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In the wake of Anurag Chaurasia’s (paywalled) Nature piece cautioning Indian scientists to conduct due diligence before using CRISPR gene editing tools, Prashant Reddy T looks closely at the patent issues raised by Chaurasia in his paper. Prashant Reddy T is one of our most prolific bloggers (his posts can be accessed here). He is also the co-author of two books- “Create, Copy, Disrupt: India’s Intellectual Property Dilemmas” (OUP, 2017) and “The Truth Pill: The Myth of Drug Regulation in India”

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