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Copyright Amendments in the Offing – Whither Consultation Process?

/ By / Copyright

It appears that there is a copyright amendment bill in the offing! This is surprising because there has been no public call for consultations as far as I can see on the DPIIT’s website nor has there been any mention of stakeholder meetings happening already. Some whispers had been doing the rounds of a ‘comprehensive’ set of amendments but I didn’t place much attention to it, having seen nothing official mentioned anywhere. However, there is now a letter to the […]

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Comments on CDSCO’s Brand Name Extension Policies

/ By / Drug Regulation, Trademark

Earlier this month, we had shared the news of CDSCO inviting comments on the long standing problem of Brand Name Extensions (BNE) practices. While this problem is one with severe consequences, it appears to have very little public discourse around it. Thanks to the quick work of 2 very industrious SpicyIP Summer School alumni, Rishabh Upadhyay and Umeshawari Ranjan, we were able to put together and send some comments just in time for the deadline. Instead of putting out the

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Reflections from the 2nd SpicyIP Summer School! 

/ By / Copyright, Courses & Workshops, Opportunities, Patent

A little over a week ago, we wrapped up the 2nd edition of our SpicyIP Summer School – and what a fantastic edition it was! With its roots planted in conversations with Shamnad close to a decade ago, it was always going to be a tall order to try to take a small group of IP enthusiasts and up-end commonly held assumptions, whether it’s faith-based or the dodgy dogma, in just a few days. For years, the idea was parked

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Shamnad at 50: Still Lighting the Way

/ By / Others

About 7 and a half years ago, Shamnad had gone to Iran, as a guest lecturer in a workshop organised by their National IP Training Centre in collaboration with WIPO. There, he would also give what may have been his last recorded interview. And perhaps because the website was not in English, nor was the video uploaded directly to youtube, it appears very few people have had the pleasure of listening to it! Candid and free-flowing, (including, of course, discussions

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Comments to the DPIIT on their GenAI – Copyright Working Paper 1

/ By / Copyright

As most in the IP world would’ve noticed over the last two months, there’s been much discussion around the Working Paper on Generative AI and Copyright (Part 1), with its ambitious subtitle “One Nation One License One Payment – Balancing AI Innovation and Copyright”. The 125 page report (available here) is focused on ‘the legal issues relating to the use of copyright-protected works as training data for GenAI systems’, while part 2 (yet to be published) will focus on ‘the

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Online Symposium on the Book “IP Debates in South Asia” (17th Jan)

/ By / Event, Others, Publication

In one of the first works of its kind, a recent publication edited by the wonderful Dr Pratyush Nath Upreti (Queens University, Belfast), brought together a number of IP scholars to examine the IP developments and debates that have taken place in South Asia. As Prof Gangjee notes in the forward, “a central aim of this book is to document current initiatives and imagine future possibilities for creating more equitable and inclusive intellectual property regimes across the regime”. He emphasises

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Bulldozer Justice comes to the Digital Sphere: Looking at the GenAI-Copyright Report

/ By / Copyright, Others

As readers of the blog are aware, the DPIIT formed a Committee to examine the intersection of Generative AI and Copyright, and this Committee recently released their report. There have been many pieces by now that have discussed the 125 pages of the paper, so I will not spend much e-ink re-visiting all that’s said in there. For anyone who has yet to catch up on the report, some links are inserted in the discussion below. My attempt to essentialise

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Let’s IPsa Loquitur: The Personality Rights Debacle – Whose Face Value Is It Anyway?

/ By / Copyright, Overlaps in IP, Podcast, Privacy

Regular readers (and now, viewers!) would’ve seen the launch of our SpicyIP TV series with the Summer School edition, where we spoke with many of the fantastic faculty members who had come to generously spend their time with our summer school students. That series (still on-going, with more to come), is geared especially towards those who are interested in the state of legal education as well as various ways of approaching how to build one’s career in IP and related

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Announcing SpicyIP TV! The SS Edition: Episode 1 with Mr Murali Neelakantan

/ By / Others, Podcast

A few months ago, in the green environs of the inaugural edition of the SpicyIP Summer School (held at the lovely campus of ECC, Whitefield, Bengaluru) , we had the golden chance to sit and engage with so many interesting, and interested, minds. As course-participants took the opportunity to sit back with many of the faculty and engage in hours of discussion about careers, life, law and more, we too took the opportunity to kickstart something we’ve been wanting to

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The SciHub Saga! Miles to Go While We Sleep

/ By / Copyright

The Delhi High Court, on 19th August, decided to block access to Sci-Hub and Sci-Net, two prominent online shadow libraries. Bharathwaj, in a short post, has provided a quick overview of this case. The facts of the case and surrounding history can be found here. The case has been discussed on the blog earlier here, here, here, and here. The current outcome, was to say the least, on expected lines, even if the method it reached here raises questions. So,

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