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SpicyIP Weekly Review (July 6-July 12)

July 13, 2026 / By SpicyIP / Copyright, Patent, Trademark, Traditional Knowledge

Bringing you a roundup of all the important IP developments from the last week, here is the SpicyIP Weekly Review featuring posts on the ongoing Satluj controversy, reflections on the SpicyIP Summer School 2026, and the Bombay High Court ruling on Black Diamond Motors Pvt. Ltd. v. Registrar of Trade Marks. This and much more in this week’s SpicyIP Weekly Review. Anything we are missing out on? Drop a comment and let us know. Highlights of the Week Reflections from […]

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Everything Flows, Except Satluj…Through Your ZEE5 App

July 9, 2026 / By SpicyIP / Copyright

The quiet disappearance of Satluj from ZEE5 within days of its release raises questions that go well beyond censorship. Anjali Tripathi examines whether the government’s reported takedown was legally sustainable, what it reveals about the limits of Section 69A, and how copyright has unexpectedly become a tool for restricting, rather than enabling, access to culture. Anjali is a B.A. LL.B. (Hons.) graduate from JGLS with an interest in IP rights, access to education, and the creative arts. Her previous posts

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Reflections from the 2nd SpicyIP Summer School!

July 8, 2026 / By Swaraj Paul Barooah / 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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SpicyIP Weekly Review (29 June – 5 July)

July 6, 2026 / By SpicyIP / Biological Diversity, Copyright, Drug Regulation, Patent, Trademark

What an eventful week it was, with the post announcing the long-awaited results of the SpicyIP-jhana Blogpost Writing Competition, and posts on legal deposits, black-box AI, and house marks. This and much more in this week’s SpicyIP Weekly Review. Anything we are missing out on? Drop a comment and let us know. Highlights of the Week Announcing the Results of SpicyIP-jhana Blogpost Writing Competition 2025 After carefully reviewing a range of thoughtful and insightful entries from participants across the

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The Forgotten Half of the Copyright Bargain – Legal Deposit : Part 2

July 2, 2026 / By Akshat Agrawal / Copyright, Innovation

This is in continuation of Part 1 which dealt with the pre-independence history of Library Deposits and its Coupling/De-Coupling with Copyright! The scheme matured after independence. At a literacy rate near twelve per cent and in what the economist Malcolm Adiseshiah called a book famine, India enacted the Delivery of Books (Public Libraries) Act of 1954, Act 27 of 1954, for the promotion of public libraries and the encouragement of scholarship. Section 3 requires the publisher of every book published

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The Forgotten Half of the Copyright Bargain – Legal Deposit : Part 1

July 2, 2026 / By Akshat Agrawal / Copyright, Innovation

In 2024 the Union Government approved One Nation One Subscription, a scheme to fund national access to commercial journals at a reported cost of six thousand crore rupees over three years. The scheme funds access for the term of the payment. When the payment ends the public retains no copy of what was read. Praharsh and Shravya have previously examined whether the scheme closes the access gap or extends the dependence that produced it. A prior question concerns the law

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SpicyIP Weekly Review (15 June-28 June)

July 1, 2026 / By SpicyIP / Copyright, Patent, Trademark

[This weekly review is authored by Vikram Raj Nanda. Vikram is a third-year student at National Law School of India University, Bengaluru, with a keen interest in IP law, Competition Law, and Arbitration. His previous posts can be accessed here.] After wrapping up the second edition of SpicyIP Summer School, we are back with the SpicyIP Weekly Review covering the developments from the last 2 weeks. From a historical reflection on the reversionary right in copyright law and its disappearance from

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How Telegram Imports Copyright Doctrine Into Public Law

The Delhi High Court’s recent decision upholding the temporary nationwide blocking of Telegram may appear to be a public-order case. Yet, beneath the surface, it imports a deeper logic from copyright enforcement jurisprudence: that a platform’s architecture can itself justify expansive regulatory intervention. In this post, Anushka Aggarwal examines the emergence of “architectural liability” and its implications for intermediary regulation. Anushka is a fifth year student at the National Law School of India University, Bengaluru. She would like to add

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SpicyIP Tidbit: PPL Registered as a Copyright Society for Sound Recordings

[This post is authored by Nilisa Majumder. Nilisa is a third-year student at The West Bengal National University of Juridical Sciences, Kolkata. She has a keen interest in Intellectual Property Law, Public International Law, and Corporate Law.] On 11 June 2026 the Registrar of Copyrights registered Phonographic Performance Limited (PPL) as a copyright society for sound recordings (here). The registration is under Section 33(3) of the Copyright Act, 1957, and comes on a Form X certificate. This development comes after

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The Copyright Reversion Right India Refused

While reading the historical debates leading to the passing of the first post-independence Copyright Act in India, I came across some interesting passages that are relevant to a debate on a theme that seems to have lost its place in Indian Copyright jurisprudence – the Reversionary Right. On 14 May 1957, during the Rajya Sabha’s debate on the Bill that became the Copyright Act, Professor A. R. Wadia recorded his surprise that clause 18 of the Bill as introduced in

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Anonymous on Everything Flows, Except Satluj…Through Your ZEE5 App
Under section 69A of IT Act Government has every right as exercised in this case. definition of 'intermediary" is inclusive…
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Architecture based liability can be akin to opening Pandora's box. There is no limit to how deep the liability will…
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This was such a wonderful write-up of a once in a lifetime experience. Thank you Maneesha for such a detailed…
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Congratulations to the winners, and heartfelt appreciation to all participants for their engagement and efforts!