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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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CERN undertakes largest ever Open Access Initiative

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Come January 2014, CERN (the European Organization for Nuclear Research), through its SCOAP3 project will make a significant portion of scientific literature in the particle physics field available for anyone with an internet connection under Open Access terms. According to SCOAP3, which stands for Sponsoring Consortium for Open Access Publishing in Particle Physics, “SCOAP3 is a one-of-its-kind partnership of thousands of libraries and key funding agencies and research centers in two dozen countries. Working with leading publishers, SCOAP3 is converting key journals in the field of High-Energy

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Five new Central Information Commissioners appointed

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Transparency has been a consistent area of focus for this blog and to this end, we’ve certainly tried to make much use of the RTI mechanism. As Shamnad has previously noted, “From 2007 when we first shot off a protest petition (signed by many of you) to the Prime Ministers’ Office asking that patent data be available for public access, up until our RTI investigations into the authorship of the controversial section 3(d), we’ve come a long way. However, much more needs to be

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Guest post: Copyright in Photographs vis-a-vis Social Networking Sites

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We are happy to present Devika Agarwal’s second post in the 2nd Annual SpicyIP Fellowship applicant series. You can view her previous post on copyrightability of characters here. [Edit: Incidentally, Gopika had discussed this development during its initial stages earlier last year in the course of her application to our fellowship.] Copyright in Photographs vis-a-vis Social Networking Sites We live in the ripe age of digital photography where anybody with a point-to-shoot camera is easily a photographer; the unprecedented spurt

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Guest Post: IPAB dismisses challenge to Kibow’s product patent

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Spadika Jayaraj, a 3rd year student from NLSIU, Bangalore brings us a crisp update on the Kibow litigation. Prashant had earlier mentioned the oddity of selective reporting that was happening around it with news reports focusing on the Kibow patent that was rejected. In this post, Spadika looks at the Kibow patent that was upheld. This is her first submission to our 2nd Annual SpicyIP Fellowship applicant series. IPAB Ruling Dismisses La Renon’s challenge to Kibow’s Product Patent on Renadyl

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Guest Post: Iskcon sues Iscon for trademark infringement

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Radhika Agarwal brings us her second submission in the 2nd Annual SpicyIP Fellowship applicant series. You can view her first post here. Iskcon sues Iscon for trademark infringement The International Society for Krishna Consciousness (popularly known as ISKCON) founded by A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada in 1966 in New York is  known world-wide for its devotional practices towards Lord Krishna, a Hindu deity. Popularly known as the Hare Krishna movement, the religious organization has chapters all over the world, including India.

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Guest Post: Copyrightability of characters

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We are happy to bring our readers Devika Agarwal’s first post in the 2nd Annual SpicyIP Fellowship applicant series. Devika is a 4th year student at RML National Law University, Lucknow and brings us an interesting post on the question of copyrightability of characters. UNKNOTTING THE ‘GUTTHI’ OF ARTISTS’ RIGHTS The exit of ‘Gutthi’ from ‘Comedy Nights with Kapil’, a comedy show aired on Viacom18, was tragic for all those who are faithful viewers of the show. Adding to their woes

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