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The featured image reads 'all rights reserved'. This post talks about the Entertainment Law and Copyrights involved in Royalty Rights in Sound Recordings, Lyrics & Musical Works. To read more, please click here.

Royalty Rights in Sound Recordings, Lyrics & Musical Works – Part 1

Quick bite: Dear readers, the following post is brought to you by the Media and Entertainment law experts of BananaIP (BIP)Counsels. This post is the first in its series and promises to engage your grey matter. This post will essentially help you understand the Entertainment Law and Copyrights surrounding Royalty Rights in Sound Recordings, Lyrical & Musical Works. Colloquially used word music/song is more than melody or harmony reduced to print, writing or graphic form[1]. Music is a language with a…

February 10, 2017 BananaIP Reporter Copyrights, Intellectual Property, Media and Entertainment Law 0Comment 2544Views 0Like

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Apple sues Qualcomm again, Major Setback to Bayer, Delhi HC allows export of patented drug and much more.

Intellectual Property updates Hello there Intellepedia readers. All of us realize that we live in a world where everything is instant. When one can have instant food, instant television and an instant date, why not some instant news? In our endeavour to bring to you Intellectual Property updates from across the globe, we are kick starting today a brand new approach to learning. All we ask of you is to brace yourself for the exciting IP journey ahead! Aikya prevails…

February 3, 2017 BananaIP Reporter Intellectual Property 0Comment 854Views 0Like

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Weapon in the hands of Police?

The Union Government has launched a new scheme in order to protect Intellectual Property Rights. As a part of the scheme, the Indian Government is providing special knowledge toolkit to Indian Police to identify and prosecute IPR violations. This step was taken by Commerce and Industry Minister Smt. Nirmala Sitharaman for management of IP Rights. To prepare this toolkit, the Cell for IPR Promotion and Management (CIPAM) and the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI) have worked…

January 30, 2017 BananaIP Reporter Copyrights, Intellectual Property 0Comment 938Views 0Like

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Landmark Copyright-related Events in the year 2016- Part 2

Hello readers, 2016 has been a year full of exciting changes. Almost too many. In this post and subsequent posts we will bring to you events that made headlines in the field of copyright law. Plan to block copyright.in by the Government In October of this year, the government took notice of a website called copyright.in, with the government stating that the website was a misrepresentation of the official website of the Copyright Office. This has been referred to relevant…

January 16, 2017 BananaIP Reporter Copyrights, Intellectual Property 0Comment 666Views 0Like

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Landmark Copyright-related Events in the year 2016- Part I

Hello readers, 2016 has been a year full of exciting changes. Almost too many. In this post and subsequent posts we will bring to you events that made headlines in the field of copyright law. Restriction of three Copyright Societies from granting licenses until April 2017 In an order issued by the Justice Endlaw of the Delhi High Court in December, Saregama India Ltd. was asked to deposit Rs.20 lakhs in Court in a copyright infringement suit filed by Zee…

January 11, 2017 BananaIP Reporter Copyrights, Intellectual Property 0Comment 628Views 0Like

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World’s Best IP Blogs – 2016

Last year in 2015, we ran a series on the world’s best IP blogs where we featured Intellectual Property blogs who have carved a niche for themselves in the world of IP. The series that we ran last year received immense appreciation and support from our readers and we remain thankful to them for the same. We also thank the IP blogs featured in this post and the series last year, for it is they who have taken it upon…

January 6, 2017 BananaIP Reporter Intellectual Property 0Comment 1945Views 0Like

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Indian Patent Highlights, 2016 – Patent Office, Patent Procedure and Patent Rules

Never before has the patent fraternity in India seen so much action as it has in the year 2016. 2016 was truly a year of some unprecedented thoughts and moves. This post attempts to take a recap of the year that was. New unique numbering system for patent applications: On 31st December 2015, the Office of the Controller General of Patents, Designs and Trademarks issued a notification announcing the introduction of a new unique numbering system for patent applications filed in India.…

January 6, 2017 BananaIP Reporter Intellectual Property, Patents 0Comment 829Views 0Like

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Patent Wish List – 2017

I am sure all of us have one or the other kind of a wish list set up for 2017. In keeping with the trend we have decided to prepare and put out our own wish list for everyone to read. 2016 was witness to some very significant changes to the patent system in India. A number of measures were adopted to streamline the patent laws and to make their workings more efficient. While some of these changes were much needed…

January 5, 2017 BananaIP Reporter Intellectual Property, Patents 0Comment 882Views 0Like

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PayPal and Paytm Trademark Dispute

Paytm, the largest e-wallet company in India, which saw a drastic surge in user volume post-demonetization, has found itself embroiled in a controversy over its logo with the US-based PayPal, also a digitized payment system. Paypal claims that Paytm’s logo is ‘deceptively and confusingly similar’ to that of the global giant’s. PayPal further claims that Paytm is free-riding on the goodwill of PayPal. What is similar between the two logos is that the first syllable of both the logos is…

December 27, 2016 BananaIP Reporter Intellectual Property, Trademarks 0Comment 2116Views 0Like

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A Presentation on “Basics of Specification Drafting” by Mr. Somashekar Ramakrishna delivered at NLSIU

The following presentation titled “Basics of Specification Drafting”, was delivered on 18th December, 2016 by Mr. Somashekar Ramakrishna, Senior Partner, BananaIP Counsels, at National Law School of India University, Bangalore (NLSIU) to the Post Graduate Diploma Intellectual Property Rights Law PGDIPR students as a part of their course. The Presentation included the following topics: Object of Patent Law Specification Types In the Indian Patent Act Specification Contents Perspectives Example Invention Title Preamble Technical…