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Akshay Kumar’s Toilet EK Prem Katha in copyright trouble, Game of Thrones: 90 Million infringement, Copyright Board by year end, Netflix’s copyright infringement and more.

“Akshay Kumar’s Toilet EK Prem Katha in copyright trouble, Copyright Board to be functional by end of this year, Netflix accused of copyright infringement, Game of Thrones premier pirated over 90 million times, and other entertainment law news” 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 “Moral rights form the essence of copyright law. When they conflict with economic rights, moral rights must always…

July 28, 2017 BananaIP Reporter Copyrights, Intellectual Property, IP Commercialization/Licensing, Media and Entertainment Law 0Comment 938Views 0Like

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Amitabh Bachchan sends copyright infringement notice to Aam Admi Party Leader Kumar Vishwas, Dhinchak Pooja’s videos taken down from YouTube due to copyright infringement claims, Monkey-Selfie Copyright suit returns to Court, IIFA comes out with official merchandise and more

Copyrights & Entertainment Law News: Indian Copyright and Entertainment Law Updates, International Copyright and Entertainment Law Updates, Entertainment Licensing and Merchandising Updates, BIP Tip of the Week and more presented by the Media & Entertainment law attorneys and experts of BananaIP Counsels, India’s Premier New Age IP Firm. Copyright quote of the week “If you don’t move to protect copyright, if you don’t move to protect our children, It is not going to sit well” – Barbara Boxer Indian Copyright and Entertainment Law…

July 14, 2017 BananaIP Reporter Copyrights, IP Commercialization/Licensing, Media and Entertainment Law 0Comment 832Views 0Like

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Legal row over Half Girlfriend, Google directed to de-index infirnging contents, Dangal sets a new record, Amazon and Warner bros sign a licensing deal and more

Indian copyright and entertainment law updates, International copyright and entertainment law updates, licensing and merchandising news and more weekly news updates, presented by the Copyright and Entertainment Attorneys and experts of BananaIP Counsels, India’s Premier New Age IP Firm Copyright quote of the week "Of all the creative work produced by humans anywhere, a tiny fraction has continuing commercial value. For that fraction, the copyright is a crucially important legal device" --Lawrence Lessig Indian Copyrights and Entertainment Law Updates Bangalore…

June 30, 2017 BananaIP Reporter Copyrights, Intellectual Property, Media and Entertainment Law 0Comment 743Views 0Like

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Copyright assignment/licensing issues in movie sequels

Narendra Hirawat & Co. (Appellant/Original Plaintiff) Vs. M/s. Alumbra Entertainment & Media Pvt. Ltd. & Ors. (Respondents) THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY COMMERCIAL APPEAL (L) No. 30 OF 2017 Brief facts: The blockbuster movie “Sarkar” was released in 2005 starring the legendary actor Amitabh Bachchan. The film was produced by K Sera Sera Productions Ltd., (hereinafter referred to as KSS). A sequel movie “Sarkar Raj” was released in the year 2009. This case revolves around the agreement between…

June 10, 2017 BananaIP Reporter Copyrights, Intellectual Property, Media and Entertainment Law 0Comment 1185Views 0Like

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Raabta Copyright infringement case update, New Registrar of Copyrights appointed, Lower GST demanded by Entertainment industry, Forever21 and Urban Outfitters sued over Tupac T-shirts and more

Indian Copyrights and Entertainment Law Updates, International Copyrights and Entertainment Law Updates, BIP Tip of the week and more presented by the Media & Entertainment Law attorneys and experts of BananaIP Counsels, India’s Premier New Age IP Firm. Copyright quote of the week “Copyright law has got to give up its obsession with 'the copy.' The law should not regulate 'copies' or 'modern reproductions' on their own. It should instead regulate uses; like public distributions of copies of copyrighted work; that connect…

June 9, 2017 BananaIP Reporter Copyrights, Intellectual Property, Media and Entertainment Law 0Comment 924Views 0Like

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Creativity, Illegality and Intellectual Property

Thinking, understanding, reasoning, and articulating creativity is very difficult, if not impossible. Creativity is shapeless, and any defined approach to creativity defeats its ends. It is into this unstructured, boundless, and absolutely free world that the concept of intellectual property was introduced. IP, in its unduly glorified form, seeks to give shape to certain understandable elements of creativity and endeavors to protect the same. Copyrights seek to capture some elements of expression, Patents elements of invention, and so on. By laying…

June 5, 2017 Dr. Kalyan C. Kankanala Copyrights, Intellectual Property, Media and Entertainment Law 0Comment 831Views 0Like

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Republic TV accused of copyright infringement, Eminem’s copyright infringement case, Samsung’s Gear VR Headset copyright infringement, FIFA merges with Megalicense Entertainment and more

Copyrights & Entertainment Law News: Indian Copyright News and Updates, International Copyright Updates, Entertainment Licensing & Merchandizing Updates, Digital Licensing News, BananaIP Copyright Tip of the Week and more presented by the Media & Entertainment law attorneys and experts of BananaIP Counsels, India’s Premier New Age IP Firm. Copyright Thought of the Week We're on the path of creating monopoly business practices out of copyright law. - Robin Gross Indian Copyright News and Updates Arnab Goswami of Republic TV is accused of Copyright…

May 19, 2017 BananaIP Reporter Copyrights, IP Commercialization/Licensing, Media and Entertainment Law 0Comment 739Views 0Like

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The featured image shows a mic in a sound recording studio. To read more about this, click here. Entertainment Law and Copyrights: Sound Recording, Literary & Musical Works and Right to Royalty – Part 3

Sound Recording, Literary & Musical Works and Right to Royalty – Part 4

Continued from Part 3, read part by clicking here. Conclusion Reiterating that said earlier, sound recording consists of the acoustic portion including a lyric or a musical work despite which underlying works do not lose their existence upon a sound recording being made but remain exclusively mutual. However, the anomaly of the provision of the Act that grants the authors of musical & literary work and authors of sound recording the right to communicate to public their work has questioned the…

May 6, 2017 BananaIP Reporter Copyrights, Intellectual Property 0Comment 1331Views 0Like

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IP News Center : INDIAN TRADEMARK LAW ON PROTECTION OF MOVIE TITLE

INDIAN TRADEMARK LAW ON PROTECTION OF MOVIE TITLE – Part 2

Apart from applying for registration of a movie title under the Indian Trademarks Act, there are a number of industry associations to which the film makers look up to regarding protection of their film titles. Indian Motion Picture Producers' Association (IMPPA), Association of Motion Pictures and Television Program Producers (AMPTPP) and Film and Television Producers' Guild of India, Film Writers' Association and Western India Film Producers Association (WIFPA) are the associations that play a big role in protecting the commercial…

April 13, 2017 BananaIP Reporter Copyrights, Media and Entertainment Law, Trademarks 0Comment 2137Views 0Like

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Sound Recording, Literary & Musical Works and Right to Royalty

Continued from Part 2, read part by clicking here. Music Broadcast Private Limited v. Indian Performing Right Society Limited, SUIT NO. 2401 OF 2006 Facts of the case The Plaintiff (Music Broadcast Private Limited) engaged in business of establishing, operating and maintaining FM Radio broadcasting stations in various cities of India sought a declaration that the Defendant (IPRS) is not entitled to demand or recover royalty and/or license fee in respect of broadcast of sound recordings at its FM Radio…

April 8, 2017 BananaIP Reporter Copyrights, Intellectual Property, Media and Entertainment Law 0Comment 1487Views 0Like

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Akshay Kumar’s Toilet EK Prem Katha in copyright trouble, Game of Thrones: 90 Million infringement, Copyright Board by year end, Netflix’s copyright infringement and more.

Amitabh Bachchan sends copyright infringement notice to Aam Admi Party Leader Kumar Vishwas, Dhinchak Pooja’s videos taken down from YouTube due to copyright infringement claims, Monkey-Selfie Copyright suit returns to Court, IIFA comes out with official merchandise and more

Legal row over Half Girlfriend, Google directed to de-index infirnging contents, Dangal sets a new record, Amazon and Warner bros sign a licensing deal and more

Copyright assignment/licensing issues in movie sequels

Raabta Copyright infringement case update, New Registrar of Copyrights appointed, Lower GST demanded by Entertainment industry, Forever21 and Urban Outfitters sued over Tupac T-shirts and more

Creativity, Illegality and Intellectual Property

Republic TV accused of copyright infringement, Eminem’s copyright infringement case, Samsung’s Gear VR Headset copyright infringement, FIFA merges with Megalicense Entertainment and more

Sound Recording, Literary & Musical Works and Right to Royalty – Part 4

INDIAN TRADEMARK LAW ON PROTECTION OF MOVIE TITLE – Part 2

Sound Recording, Literary & Musical Works and Right to Royalty

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