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Guest Post: “Adaptation” of movies

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Shashank Singh brings us his second submission for our Fellowship series. In this guest post, he looks at a topic we’ve often discussed on this blog in the past – The Hollywood to Bollywood script ‘diffusion’. You can view Shashank’s first submission here. Trend and Standard for judging infringement in ‘adaptation’ of movies Off late, Bollywood has been drawn towards remaking movies or re-releasing them with slight manipulation. They have also been accused of “heavily borrowing” scripts from Hollywood movies. […]

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Guest Post: When Man becomes a Brand

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In this guest post, Deepshikha Malhotra, a 2nd year student from Faculty of Law, University of Delhi, raises some questions of what happens when a person becomes a ‘brand name’. This is Deepshikha’s first entry to our 2nd Annual SpicyIP Fellowship. [Note: We will be accepting submissions till 15th January] When Man becomes a Brand In our age of media and advertising, celebrities are paid crores just to endorse products. Their name or image is associated with the product and in

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A Look Back, As We Step Into 2014

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As we wish our readers a warm and fulfilling year ahead, we’d like to take this opportunity to glance back at the year that was. From the Novartis decision to the Marrakesh Treaty, from our new website to Aparajita’s legal notice – 2013 was certainly an eventful year for both the IP landscape as well as for our blog! SpicyIP Highlights: The year started off with some great news for the blog with Barry Sookman ranking SpicyIP as the 8th most

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Event: CPhl’s Pharma IPR, 2014

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CPhI’s 3rd Annual Pharma IPR 2014, is a very targeted conference focusing on patent related matters for Pharma and Biopharma Industry across the globe. It is an ideal learning and networking platform where techno-legal experts from patent law firms across the globe share an update on patent regimes, changes in patent laws, and enforceability of patent laws in different regions with the Pharma and Biopharma companies. The exclusive interactive format of the programme facilitates addressing of recent case laws, intense

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Guest Post: Monopolizing generic terms?

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Sadhvi Sood, a 3rd year student of NUJS, brings us her first entry to our SpicyIP Fellowship applicant series. Sadhvi’s post notes a recent Madras High Court decision which denies the term “Aachi” trademark protection and then goes further into instances where products and taglines used by companies and celebrities are such that they may end up monopolizing generic terms.  Readers who are interested in this post/topic may also want to check out the discussion going in the comments section of

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Guest Post: Gamers Beware!

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We bring you a guest post from Shashank Singh, a 2nd year student from NUJS. In this post, he looks at Youtube’s new “Content ID” mechanism of checking videos for copyright infringement. This is Shashank’s first entry to our 2nd Annual SpicyIP Fellowship applicant series. Gamers Beware! Youtube’s introduces ‘Content ID’ to enforce copyright policy. Statistics reveal that over 100 hours of video are uploaded on Youtube every minute. For generating content, Youtube incentivises uploading videos by monetizing the video

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Guest Post: Honesty in Disparagement – Colgate v. HUL

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Spadika brings us her third entry to the SpicyIP Fellowship applicant series in this interesting post where she examines the recent Colgate v. HUL decision on comparative advertisements. You can view her previous posts here. Honesty in Disparagement- The Delhi High Court decision in Colgate v. HUL In a recent decision of the Delhi High Court, the controversial Pepsodent advertisement that compares the Pepsodent Germicheck Powder with Colgate Dental Cream has been held not to be per se disparaging. However, the

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One in! More to come?

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While our Fellowship window will continue to be open till January 15th, 2014, we are very happy to announce that one applicant has already met our required criteria! Devika Agarwal, a 4th year student at RMLNLU, Lucknow has sent in several posts on some very interesting issues. While applicants are only required to send in three submissions in the 6 week application window (Dec 1st – Jan 15th), Devika has sent in five great posts already. Her posts have discussed

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Guest Post: Amul girl and her Filmi Avatars

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Devika continues to churn out more posts looking into areas that we’ve not often covered on this blog! This is her 5th entry to our Fellowship and is yet another very interesting read. You can view her previous posts here. Amul girl and her Filmi Avatars Amul ads are known for their excellent depiction of some of the burning issues in the country and also for the movie spoofs that they create. Take for instance, ‘Buttermeez Dil’, the movie spoof

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Guest Post: What’s in a name?

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Devika brings us her fourth entry into our SpicyIP Fellowship with this analysis of the IP issues involved in a new legal tangle that’s arisen in Bollywood. You can view Devika’s previous posts here. WHAT’S IN A NAME? Salman Khan starrer ‘Jai Ho’ which is set to release in January next year has run into legal trouble over its film title. It is learnt that following the success of the song ‘Jai Ho’ (featuring in Slumdog Millionaire) music director, A.R.

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