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Is the JNU Data Depot Even “Reproducing” Papers?
There have been two pieces on this blog about Carl Malamud and Andrew Lynn’s JNU data depot project and whether it violates Indian copyright law. While Dr. Arul George Scaria argued that it doesn’t,...
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Is the Clock Ticking for TikTok’s Intermediary Liability Exemptions?
A recent stand-off between TikTok and ShareChat, two major online social media platforms in India has brought to fore several issues and inconsistencies in India’s intermediary liability regime. On...
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Hello Identity, Are You There? It’s Me, the Right of Publicity!
Image from here When FaceApp took the Internet by storm, there was furor over its broadly worded privacy policy. FaceApp is not alone, as there is similar backlash against Facebook’s vaguely worded...
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SpicyIP Weekly Review (August 26-31)
Last week, Rishabh Mohnot had reported that the IPAB’s website (ipabindia.org) was malfunctioning. This week, Rishabh wrote a report on the reasons for this. In his report, he states that the domain...
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Technology Has the Potential to Make Trademark Processes Easy Peasy
Image from here Singapore’s New Trademark App The Intellectual Property Office of Singapore has recently launched an app called ‘IPOS GO’ available on the Apple App Store and the Google Play Store. The...
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SpicyIP Events: 5th Asian IP Works-in-Progress Conference [January 9-10,...
We’re pleased to announce that The Advanced Research Centre for Intellectual Assets and the Law in Asia (ARCIALA), School of Law, Singapore Management University will be co-organising the 5th edition...
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On Gandhi, Malamud and the JNU Data Depot
Gandhi Portrait In response to my piece on the ‘JNU data depot’, I received a couple of emails from Carl Malamud alleging factual inaccuracies in my piece. I invited him to respond to the errors on...
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Band Baaja Baaraat & Copyright
Image from here Indian weddings are an expensive affair- a recent survey reports that 20% of all loans taken by young Indians in 2018-2019 was to fund their wedding expenses! It comes as some respite...
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SpicyIP Weekly Review (September 2-8)
This week, Divij Joshi wrote on the TikTok and ShareChat dispute, where TikTok served the latter with takedown notices, claiming it had ‘exclusivity’ over the content. Subsequently, ShareChat wrote to...
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Websites, the Virtual Juggernauts, Continue to Question Jurisdiction and...
Image from here The borderless nature of the internet has, time and again, challenged conventional notions of jurisdiction and enforcement. While countries have a legitimate interest in protecting /...
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The IMI-Deloitte Report on the Indian Music Industry: Can piracy still be a...
The Indian Music Industry (IMI) which is the primary lobbying arm for the music industry, along with Deloitte’s consulting arm, has recently released a report on “The Economic Impact of the recorded...
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SpicyIP Weekly Review (September 9-15)
Prashant analysed the challenges highlighted by a recent report released by the Indian Music Industry (IMI) and Deloitte: (i) Music Piracy: He states that it is not very relevant in a day and age...
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Tips Industries v. Wynk Music: A Case of Statutory Mis-Interpretation?
Image from here We’re pleased to bring to you a guest post by Karan Dhalla, a 4th year student at the National Law School of India University, Bangalore. The post critically analyses the judgment...
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Banglar Rasogolla v. Odisha Rasagola: Deciphering the Real Win
Image from here We’re pleased to bring to you an interesting guest post by Jupi Gogoi on the ongoing dispute between West Bengal and Orissa over the GI tag for rasgulla, which we’ve covered on the blog...
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40 Days: Remembering and Celebrating Prof. Shamnad Basheer
In several traditions, including those followed by Prof. Shamnad Basheer’s family, the 40th day after passing is a day of remembrance and marks the end of a mourning period. As posts, tributes and...
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The Trade Marks Registry proposing to restrict access to documents
The Trade Marks Registry (TMR) issued a public notice requesting suggestions from stakeholders regarding the display and availability of documents on its official website (comments are to be submitted...
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SpicyIP Weekly Review (Sept 16-22)
In a guest post, Karan Dhalla argues that Tips Industries v Wynk Music, which held that the statutory licensing scheme under Section 31D of the Copyright Act 1957, was wrongly decided for three...
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SpicyIP Fellowship 2019-20: FUCT the USPTO? – Revisiting the Free Speech,...
Image from here We’re pleased to bring to you a guest post by our fellowship applicant, Akanshha Agrawal. Akanshha is a 3rd year student at National Law University, Delhi. This is her first submission...
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Justice Ravindra Bhat Appointed to the Supreme Court of India
In a bit of good news, in an otherwise bleak time for Indian IP, Justice Ravindra Bhat was recently appointed to the Supreme Court of India. For the last 15 years Justice Bhat served as a judge of the...
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Just (Let) Google (Do) It: Updates on the Right to Be Forgotten from the...
In two significant judgements made on September 24, 2019, the top court of the European Union, the CJEU, has deliberated upon the scope of the delisting and de-indexing requirements (otherwise known as...
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