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India lacks IP Expertise, Game of Thrones leaks, New South Wales government sued for royalties and more weekly copyright and entertainment news

Indian Copyright Statistics, IP related expertise lacking in India: Parrikar, New South Wales government sued for royalties, Game of Thrones Leaks carried out by former Iranian Military Hacker, Amrita Pandey to head media distribution and OTT for Disney in SEA markets and more is presented by the Copyright and Entertainment Law Attorneys and experts of BananaIP Counsels, India’s Premier New Age IP Firm COPYRIGHT QUOTE OF THE WEEK “The problem with the Indian IP system is not expertise or scholarship, it is…

November 24, 2017 BananaIP Reporter Copyrights, Intellectual Property, IP Commercialization/Licensing, IP for Start Ups, Media and Entertainment Law, Social Media Law 0Comment 679Views 0Like

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IP Conferences and seminars, Snapchat and Facebook, Licensing, Antiviral Condoms, Patent Tips and more.

Patent stats, Industrial Designs, Startup schemes, Recent patent grants, Interesting Patents, IP Conferences and seminars, Snapchat and Facebook, Patent Suit Settlement, licensing, commercialization, Health patents - Antiviral Condoms, Patent Tips and more, presented by the Patent attorneys and experts of BananaIP Counsels, India’s Premier New Age IP Firm. Quote of the week “I make more mistakes than anyone else I know, and sooner or later, I patent most of them.” - Thomas A. Edison Patents & Designs stats from the Indian Patents &…

April 24, 2017 BananaIP Reporter Intellectual Property, Patents 0Comment 711Views 0Like

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Copyright cases, Copyright infringement, Entertainment technology, Licensing, Copyright Board, Copyright tips and more

Copyright cases, Copyright infringement, Entertainment technology, Licensing, Copyright Board, Copyright tips and more, presented by the Media & entertainment law attorneys and experts of BananaIP Counsels, India’s Premier New Age IP Firm. Entertainment quote of the week Of all the creative work produced by humans anywhere, a tiny fraction has continuing commercial value. For that tiny fraction, the copyright is a crucially important legal device. - Lawrence Lessig Copyright Cases Plagiarism charges against Hindi movie titled ‘Hindi Medium’ Shiboprosad Mukherjee and…

March 31, 2017 BananaIP Reporter Copyrights, Intellectual Property 0Comment 1371Views 0Like

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Censorship, Publicity Rights, Licensing, Merchandizing, Technology, Blockchain, Cases, Copyright Tips and more

Censorship, Publicity Rights, Licensing, Merchandizing, Technology, Blockchain, Cases, Copyright tips and more, presented by the Media & entertainment law attorneys and experts of BananaIP Counsels, India’s Premier New Age IP Firm. Quote of the Week "Every film must be assessed through the eyes of the contemporary, Intelligent, Informed Spectator with a distracted mind, and not the outdated, Innocent, gullible Spectator of the past. The rapid progress of entertainment technology, and the emergence of novel modes and means of content distribution obviates the need…

March 24, 2017 BananaIP Reporter Copyrights, Intellectual Property 0Comment 903Views 0Like

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Interesting Trademarks, Domain Name Disputes, Cybersquatting, TM Merchandizing, Licensing, Trademark tips and more

Interesting Trademarks, Domain Name Disputes, Cybersquatting, TM Merchandizing, Licensing, Trademark tips and more, presented by the Trademark attorneys and experts of BananaIP Counsels, India’s Premier New Age IP Firm. TRADEMARK QUOTE OF THE WEEK Your brand is what other people say about you when you are not in the room - Jeff Bezos. Trademark Stats from the Indian Trademark office The Trademark Office has been a little slow this week considering there has been an overall decrease in the number of applications that…

March 22, 2017 BananaIP Reporter Intellectual Property, Trademarks 0Comment 979Views 0Like

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Introduction to Intellectual Property and IP Licensing – A Presentation by Dr. Kalyan C. Kankanala at IIM-B

The following presentation titled “Introduction to IP and Licensing”, was delivered on 26th November, 2016 by Dr. Kalyan C. Kankanala, Chief IP Attorney, BananaIP Counsels, at Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore (IIM-B) on IPRs and Licensing to the Post Graduate Programme Management (PGPM)students. The topics of the presentation included: Introduction to IP and Licensing Nature of IP and Forms Licensing Intellectual Property Subject Matter Exclusivity Types of Licenses Royalty Types Example of Integrated Licensing…

November 26, 2016 BananaIP Reporter IP Commercialization/Licensing 0Comment 643Views 0Like

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Entertainment Licensing and Patents – A Presentation by Dr. Kalyan C. Kankanala at SIS

The following presentation titled ‘Entertainment Licensing and Patents’ was delivered by Dr. Kalyan C. Kankanala at the 32nd National Convention on Patinformatics (Patent Informatics) for Technological Competitive Intelligence and Licensing organised by Society for Information Science (SIS) in collaboration with CSIR’s Unit for Research and Development of Information Products (CSIR-URDIP). The presentation was given to an audience consisting of Scientists/ Researchers, Information Science Professionals, Patent Analysts, Technical Managers, IP Professionals, R&D Managers, Corporate Planning Managers and included the following topics- …

December 9, 2015 BananaIP Reporter Media and Entertainment Law 0Comment 613Views 0Like

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‘Bound by Law: Tales from the Public Domain’

(Trapped in a struggle she didn’t understand; By day a filmmaker....by night she fought for fair use!) Could you ever imagine there being a graphic novel on Fair Use? Surprise, surprise! Some law scholars actually thought it to be a feasible idea and created this unusual piece of work. James Boyle, Jennifer Jenkins and Keith Aoki, from the Duke Centre for the Study of the Public Domain, being passionate copyright enthusiasts as well as keen artists published a graphic novel…

December 1, 2015 BananaIP Reporter Copyrights, Intellectual Property 0Comment 1148Views 0Like

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Contracts in the Entertainment Industry

This presentation was delivered by Ms. Sharada Kalamadi at GNLU as a part of the entertainment law course offered to LLB and LLM students. The presentation covers: Film related Agreements Artists Agreements Author Agreements Rights and obligations of parties Future Formats Usage of third party IP/In film branding Licensing Types of Licenses Ms. Kalamadi used various industry examples, cases, multi-media to give insights into various facets of Contracts in the Entertainment Industry.…

October 14, 2015 BananaIP Reporter Intellectual Property, Media and Entertainment Law 0Comment 1780Views 0Like

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You Are Free to Sing ‘Happy Birthday’ – Warner’s Copyright Claim Rejected

'Happy Birthday' song is considered to be the most sung song in the world. The song is not only rendered on birthdays, but also captured in various forms such as sound recordings, videos, etc. A search on YouTube with the phrase, 'Happy Birthday', yields About 3,770,000 results, indicating its popularity. The 'Happy Birthday' song includes two elements, lyrics and musical composition. Simply put, it includes the words and the tune. Warner/Chappell Music was claiming copyright ownership of the lyrics, and…

September 24, 2015 BananaIP Reporter Copyrights, Intellectual Property 0Comment 965Views 0Like

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Copyright cases, Copyright infringement, Entertainment technology, Licensing, Copyright Board, Copyright tips and more

Censorship, Publicity Rights, Licensing, Merchandizing, Technology, Blockchain, Cases, Copyright Tips and more

Interesting Trademarks, Domain Name Disputes, Cybersquatting, TM Merchandizing, Licensing, Trademark tips and more

Introduction to Intellectual Property and IP Licensing – A Presentation by Dr. Kalyan C. Kankanala at IIM-B

Entertainment Licensing and Patents – A Presentation by Dr. Kalyan C. Kankanala at SIS

‘Bound by Law: Tales from the Public Domain’

Contracts in the Entertainment Industry

You Are Free to Sing ‘Happy Birthday’ – Warner’s Copyright Claim Rejected

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