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US Copyright Office Denies Registration of Dunhill’s ‘Engine Turn’ Pattern
The US Copyright Office has refused to grant…
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Audible Files Motion to Dismiss…
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Delhi HC Restrains Balaji from Using “Dhagala Lagli” Song
The Delhi High Court has passed an order restraining Balaji Telefilms from using the famous Marathi song “Dhagali Lagli” in its recent release “Dream…
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eCommerce Companies Accused of Violating FDI Norms
The Confederation of All India Traders (CAIT) has recently stated that Amazon and Flipkart violated the Press Note No.2…
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Chhichhore Leaked on Tamilrockers
The notorious website, Tamilrockers, known…
COPYRIGHT STATISTICS
There is a decrease of 12% in the total number of copyright applications filed for the month of August as compared to the month of July. A total of 1664 applications were filed in the month of August, 2019. The majority of applications were filed for literary works and artistic works.
Sl. No
Type of Work
Number of Application Filed in the Month of July 2019
Number of Application Filed in the Month of August 2019
Change
Percentage Change
1
Literary/ Dramatic Work
1099
1024
75
Decrease of 6%
2
Artistic Work
498
511
13
Increase…
After the Wynk decision of the Bombay High Court, which came to the conclusion that internet broadcasting is not covered under Section 31D of the Copyright Act, the record labels are on a drive to convince the Government, industry and academics that statutory licensing does not provide fair value to sound recording holders. Their efforts seem to have doubled and tripled after publication of the draft Copyright Rules, 2019, which proposed to include internet broadcasting within the scope of statutory…
This post was first published on December 24, 2014.
Laws alone cannot eliminate copyright infringements. For the Copyright Law to take its course, there have to be effective detection of infringements and identification of infringers. Furthermore, as with any property rights, owners of copyrighted content have to take certain measures to protect their copyrights before expecting law enforcement to aid them. DRMs and ETMs are such measures a copyright owner is expected to take in order to protect his copyrights…
Author: Dr. Kalyan C. Kankanala
Data Mining in today's context is not limited to collection, organisation, management, searching and displaying of relevant data, it means much more than that, and includes creation of information, knowledge and intelligence from data sets, among others. At a basic level, data mining involves extraction of data, which is mostly done by using data mining software, applications or tools, and analysing the extracted data for a defined purpose. The data sets extracted may be further used…
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Another Content Ownership Controversy for TikTok
Online video-sharing platform TikTok has found itself in the middle of a content ownership controversy yet again. TikTok had sent takedown notices to social…