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Guest Post: Monopolizing generic terms?

/ By / Trademark

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

/ By / Comparative Advertising, Trademark

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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Guest Post: To Parody or Not to Parody

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Continuing on, thematically, from the previous post, this guest post looks into the question of whether spoofs fall under the fair use exception or not. This is Spadika Jayaraj’s 2nd submission to the 2nd Annual SpicyIP Fellowship applicant series. You can view her first submission here. To Parody or Not to Parody – Does Bollywood need to lighten up? AIB is a group of comedians who produce funny content (mainly viral YouTube videos). They have been in the news recently for their

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Guest Post: Takedown and Growing Spoof Industry in India

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Aradhya Sethia, a 2nd year student from NLSIU, Bangalore, brings us an interesting post on the place of parodies in our legal regime. Incidentally, though I had seen mention of AIB’s “Humble Plea to Bollywood” floating around in Social Media circles, I hadn’t actually watched the video till this post came in – and it’s certainly worth a watch! This is Aradhya’s first post in the 2nd Annual SpicyIP Fellowship applicant series. As a reminder to our interested readers, our

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Call for Papers: IJIPL 2013-2014

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The Indian Journal of Intellectual Property Law is now accepting submissions for its 2013-14 edition. Submission guidelines are available for download here. Details as below:    Call for Papers Vol.VI, 2013-2014 The Indian Journal of Intellectual Property Law is India’s first student run journal that is wholly devoted to intellectual property law. Published annually, it is an endeavour of NALSAR University of Law, Hyderabad in collaboration with the N.C. Banerjee Centre for Intellectual Property Law. The Journal, now in its

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Keep Calm and Share – Copyright Not Being Infringed

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Continuing her theme of examining interesting new copyright issues, Devika Agarwal brings us a post on the copyrightability of internet memes. Her earlier posts have been on the Copyrightability of characters, and Copyright in photographs vis-a-vis Social Media Networks. Devika is a 4th year student at RML National Law University, Lucknow and this is her third submission in the 2nd Annual SpicyIP Fellowship applicant series. Keep Calm and Share – Copyright Not Being Infringed Devika Agarwal When internet memes started doing

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