Tag: Copyright

The Artistic Threshold: Supreme Court’s Recalibration of Copyright and Design Boundaries

Post author By nualslj
Post date August 20, 2025
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Parth Chhapolia Introduction The intersection of copyright and design protection in India has long been on a murky terrain, particularly in industrial innovation, where artistic duties frequently take a functional format. Section 14 of the Copyright Act, 1957 (“the Act”) defines the ambit and extent of a copyright, whereas Section 15(2) of the Act states […]

Tags Artists, Copyright, Intellectual Property, Intellectual Property Law, Intellectual Property Rights, Supreme Court

Satirical Journalism: Moral Rights and Criticism

Post author By nualslj
Post date December 17, 2024
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Aswin S. Satirical journalism is a form of journalism which incorporates humour. Through its hyperbolic content, imitation of journalistic authority and mimicry of personalities, it is used to criticise and mock usually powerful targets. The foremost examples of such ‘news outlets’ include The Onion in digital media or print form and The Daily Show in […]

Tags Copyright, Copyright Infringement, Fair Dealing, Intellectual Property Law, Intellectual Property Rights, Journalism, Satire

TeLawgram

’22 Week 5(01/04 – 07/04)

Post author By aneetam
Post date April 10, 2022
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Hello everyone! The past week has seen several developments in various realms of law! We travel from Delhi to Oklahoma to examine John Doe orders, competition law investigations abortion laws, international criminal trials and much more! Happy reading!

TeLawgram

You’ve Got TeLawgram: 2020 Roundup

Post author By Abhishek Rajiv
Post date January 1, 2021
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2020 was a tough year for all of us. Regardless, the world has marched on. Countless changes have been wrought worldwide, in all spheres, including law. In furtherance of our goal of providing our readers with updates, we have collected the largest updates over the past year, in India, and have presented them with a curated reading list for your perusal.
Happy Reading!

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25.09.20 – 02.10.20

Greetings! We are pleased to present ‘TeLawgram’, our new weekly segment focussing on events of legal importance – in India and elsewhere. For your ease, we will be providing a brief summary of events, as well as a reading list that explores different points of view. With TeLawgram, we hope to both inform readers and […]

Tags Babri Masjid, Brexit, Call for Papers, Copyright, Criminal Law, Data Protection, EU, European Union, Facebook, Free Speech, GDPR, Gujarat, Hathras Case, Labour Rights, LGPD, Privacy, Right to Privacy, Social Media, Twitter

Intellectual Property Technology

From ‘who’ to ‘what’: Proposed Paradigm shift in Patent Law

Post author By nualslj
Post date October 29, 2019
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By Aditya Gupta “The short-term impact of AI depends on who controls it, the long-term impact depends on whether it can be controlled at all” – Stephen Hawking[1] Introduction As abstract and far-fetched as it may sound, two patents have been filed before the US Patent and Trademark Office, the European Patent Office, and […]

Tags AI, Artificial Intelligence, Copyright, Patent