The ‘Numbers’ continue to talk – PPL’s revenues from mobile ringtones has zoomed up by 1857% in 6 years; from Rs. 7 crores to Rs. 137 crores

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Pursuant to the incomplete information being submitted by the Copyright Office, in response to our repeated RTI requests, I decided to try and source the information from the website of the Ministry of Corporate Affairs (MCA), which I must say is remarkably well stocked, albeit a little disorganized. Our previous posts on these RTI applications can be accessed over here and here. Image from here. We now have the annual revenues of Phonographic Performance Limited (PPL) from the year 2005 […]

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SpicyIP Jobs: Legal professional for Pharma Company

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A Leading Pharmaceutical Company seeks to hire a legal professional with 2-4 years experience. The profile involves handling legal compliance for the company and drafting and vetting of manufacturing and distribution agreements for international customers. A professional with previous experience in a Pharmaceutical, FMCG or Manufacturing company will be preferred. The position is based in Mumbai. If you are keen to apply or know about this role please contact Emerald Amara by email ([email protected]) or call on 022 40350900. If

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RTIs reveal intense battle between Registrar of Copyrights and IPRS, over release of royalties to lyricists and composers

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As mentioned in an earlier post of mine this morning the CPIO of the Copyright Office finally sent us half the information that we had requested for under the Right to Information Act, 2005. Appended to one of the Indian Performing Rights Society (IPRS) Annual Reports was a treasure trove of information in the form of a string of correspondence, throughout the year 2009, between lyricists, composers, the Registrar of Copyright and IPRS. The correspondence shows us the intensity of

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Copyright Office provides PPL’s Annual Report for 08-09; Rs. 100 crores earned from ringtone and web streaming!

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Subsequent to our last post on the RTI applications pertaining to Copyright Societies and a brief email exchange with the Copyright Office, the Registrar of Copyrights Mr. G.R Raghavender, who is also the Appellate Authority under the RTI Act, swung into action to ensure that the CPIO dispatched the requested information to us.Image from here. The CPIO has sent us the following reports today:(i) Phonographic Performance Ltd (PPL) Reports for 2005-06, which was already given to us the last time;

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‘MANJAL’ REMOVED FROM TRADE MARK REGISTRY

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The mark “Manjal” was removed from the trade marks registry vide Order dated 21st January, 2011. “Manjal” is the Malayalam / Tamil translation for turmeric / haldi (in Hindi). It was registered by M/s Oriental Extractions Pvt. Ltd in Class – 3 for “ayurvedic bath soap”. The instant application for rectification was filed by Mr. S. Sivasubramanyan, Proprietor of M/s Divine Pharmaceuticals, Kollam before Deputy Registrar of Trade Marks. Interestingly, none appeared for the registered proprietor. This Order will have

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Enercon GmBH admits to invalid patents before the U.K. Courts but defends the same before the IPAB

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Subsequent to our earlier posts on the Enercon patent litigation, we’ve received information that two of the European equivalents, of patents revoked by the IPAB, were also revoked by a High Court in the U.K., four years ago, during the course of litigation between Dr. Wobben (Owner of Enercon GmBh) and Vestas-Celtic Wind Technology Ltd. A third patent revocation is still pending before the IPAB. The most striking feature of this judgment is that it records that Dr. Wobben has

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Lending an ‘Indian perspective’ to Enercon GmBH’s propaganda in the German Press

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The Enercon patent dispute is fast acquiring political overtones, atleast in Germany, with sections of the German Press reporting that German legislators have started making enquiries with the federal government on the Enercon dispute. In addition, the same newspapers have been attributing the voiding of Enercon GmBH’s patents to possible corruption in the Indian system. Of course this comes along with the rider that there is no evidence of the same. I wonder who has been spreading these rumours, especially

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RTIs against Copyright Societies partially successfull

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In the backdrop of the Copyright Amendment Bill, 2010 I thought it would be interesting to get some data on actual numbers involved in the music industry especially the Copyright Societies. Therefore in July, 2010 I had sent the Copyright Office a RTI asking for Rule 14P information (for the years 2005-2010), that is required to be filed on an annual basis by the Copyright Societies – Phonographic Performance Ltd. (PPL) and Indian Performing Rights Society (IPRS). Initially the Central

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Don’t say TATA to the Turtles? Observations of the Delhi High Court

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Warning : Long Post Readers will remember that we have been following the TATA v. Turtle story. We now present to you a review of the recent  judgment of the Delhi High Court (IA 9089/2010 in CS(OS) 1407/2010).  The major issues raised before the Court pertained to defamation by Greenpeace against TATA and the trademark infringement. For the sake of brevity, I will focus on the observations made by Justice Bhat with regards to the trademark infringement issue. Before Hon’ble

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Data Exclusivity Debate: Whither Context?

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In this wired world of ours, they say that content is king. After reading Prashant’s impressively articulated post on data exclusivity, I’m inclined to supplement this with : “context is also king”. And unless content situates itself within context, it risks a painful dethroning. For context is one thing that he missed in an otherwise persuasive post: the “context” of the current EU-India FTA negotiations, where it is abundantly clear that the clarion call for data exclusivity comes from European

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