SpicyIP Tidbit: Music Artistes in tune with the Copyright Amendment Bill

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Lyricists, composers and singers are beginning the year with a bang owing to the proposed amendments to the Copyright Act. The Copyright Amendment Bill recently received Cabinet approval (detailed posts can be found here and here). Information and Broadcasting Minister Ambika Soni has stated that the amendments will give independent rights to authors of literary and musical works in cinematograph films. The Bill will be tabled before the Parliament in the Budget Session in February. As reported here in the […]

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The "3 Idiots" Copyright Controversy: Will All End Well?

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Sai Deepak did a wonderful post highlighting a key controversy that recently broke out between the makers of India’s most entertaining, yet thoughtful Bollywood flick of 2009 and the author from whose book the central plot was allegedly lifted; a movie that goes by the name of “3 Idiots”, but does not have the faintest trace of idiocy in either its script or execution. Clearly one of the best movies to have been released this year, it demonstrates yet again

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Eeej Aal Well?

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(Disclaimer: The first 6 paras (about 422 words) are off-topic) Imagine the plight of a 6 year old having to suffer a burly guy sitting next to him in a movie hall who’s laughing his head off, stopping embarrassingly short of rolling in the aisles. To add to the kid’s woes, his parents care a hoot about his plight and it’s dark all around except for the light from the movie screen and mobile phones. I don’t know who the

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Happy New Year from the SpicyIP team

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The SpicyIP team wishes all of you a very warm and pleasant year ahead. IP in India has seen an exciting year go past, and if December signs are anything to go by, there is plenty more coming ahead, be it in the form of legislative changes, or cases waiting to be decided by the courts, or administrative transformations that will make the Indian system at par with the best in the world. As in the past, we hope to

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Court gives Nod to Patent for Image on Flowers

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A few years ago, the Bombay High Court had reversed an order of rejection of a patent by the Controller-General of Patents. It is this case, titled Speaking Roses International Inc. vs Controller-General Of Patents And Anr. [citations: 2007 (109) Bom LR 630, MIPR 2007 (2) 75; full judgment available here], that forms of the subject of this post. The Petitioners, viz. Speaking Roses international Inc., had on September 19, 2002, applied for a patent for “providing an image on

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SpicyIP Tidbit: IIM-C with a new IP course.

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Jumping on the IP bandwagon is none other than one of the leading managment institutes of the country. IIM Calcutta (IIM-C) has now introduced “The Business of Intellectual Property” course for their Post Graduate Management students . Launched on 15th December 2009, the course hopes to cover the emergence of IP, a focus on the legal & regulatory systems, the transactional issues in IP and even a special focus on IPR protection in China. The faculty at IIM-C, Dr. VK

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Another Setback for Dr. Reddy’s Generic Olanzapine

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Dr. Reddy’s Laboratories has failed to successfully challenge Eli Lilly’s patent on olanzapine (a blockbuster drug) in the Court of Appeal. Click here for the judgment. Dr. Reddy’s Laboratories appealed from the judgment of Judge Floyd delivered in October 2008 which refused to revoke Eli Lilly’s patent on olanzapine. Olanzapine is an antipsychotic agent used to treat schizophrenia. The patent expires in 2010 but the legal protection will extend to 26 September 2011 owing to a supplementary protection certificate. Supplementary

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SpicyIP Events: NLSIU invites abstracts for conference on ‘Internet Intermediary Liability in India’

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The Law and Technology Committee of the Student Bar Association of the National Law School of India University has invited abstracts for proposed papers that are to be presented at its annual law & tech conference – Consilience – 2010. Past editions of the conference have been based on themes ranging from ‘Bio-technology and the law’ to ‘Free and Open Source Software’ and have had speakers ranging from Dr. Montel Singh Ahluwalia (Deputy Chairman Planning Commission) to Rahul Mathan, a

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Off Topic: NUJS Law Review Special Issue on the Naz Foundation Case

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The NUJS law review has just come out with its special volume dedicated to the landmark Naz Foundation judgment that effectively decriminalised same sex activities in India. Pursuant to its tradition of being an open access journal, all the articles can be accessed freely here. I list out the articles and their authors below: DECRIMINALISATION OF HOMOSEXUALITY AND THE CONSTITUIONProfessor Mahendra P. Singh OUT OF THE COLONIAL CLOSET, BUT STILL THINKING ‘INSIDE THE BOX’: REGULATING ‘PERVERSION’ AND THE ROLE OF

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Taxing ‘Royalties’ derived from Intellectual Property

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Shamnad recently sent me this most interesting article by S. Murlidharan in the Hindu Business Line on the topic of taxing of royalties earned by authors of books that are of a literary, artistic or scientific nature. The article inspired me to have a quick look at one of the most fascinating and complex legislations – the Income Tax Act – a legislation which has sent shivers down me spine for more than one reason. Murlidharan’s article focuses exclusively on

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