Imagine yourself as a judge, blessed with legal acumen, integrity and what not. A case is brought before you, as below: A person (Ashok) walks upto a shopkeeper (Ravi) and demands money for allegedly patrolling Ravi’s store and offering protection from thieves and the like. Ravi protests stating that he did not appoint Ashok to render the said services. In fact, Ravi had no idea that Ashok was doing so, and importantly, Ravi’s locks and other security systems within the

After my post yesterday on the OUP-DU photocopying copyright infringement case, I received a very interesting email from the Managing Director of Cambridge University Press India Pvt. Ltd. – Manas Saika. In his email, Saika provides a rather simple solution to the current impasse at DU and which solution also appears to be quite affordable. For some reason, most newspapers or even the Facebook group set up by the DU students does not seem to carry any information on this

The Business Standard recently published an op-ed by me on the copyright infringement case filed by Oxford University Press (OUP), the Cambridge University Press and a third publisher against Delhi University (DU) and a photocopier located on DU’s campus. The op-ed can be accessed over here.  Amlan and Shamnad had earlier covered this issue in posts that are available over here and here.  A brief summary of the op-ed is available below, along with additional comments which could not make