Written By: Kousi Das Unauthorized Data Mining by Social media platforms has become a popular white-collar offense, they impose upon the users a compulsion to agree to the set terms & conditions, a ‘take it or leave it’ policy, one cannot access or login to any of these platforms without confirming the same. It is […]
Read moreWritten By- Manish S Reddy With the advent of social media, the current era has witnessed gladiator fights in the copyright arena wherein, the lines on how what can be copyrighted and what cannot with respect to reproduction through fair – use and licensing has become blurred, with the work becoming very convenient to reproduce. […]
Read moreWritten By: Sanghamitra Panda Now-a-days, copyright infringement has become a serious issue in the Indian scenario. The term copyright means an exclusive right of the owner/author of the work preventing others to copy the artistic, literary and dramatic work. Problem comes in finding out the scope of the work on which copyright subsists. In a […]
Read moreWritten By: Bibhudatta Kar Copyright is one of the protection of human intelligence related to literary, artistic and dramatic works. The growing rate of copyright infringement is an alarming issue as free riders are always in search to take advantage of works, which do not belong to them. In the context of infringement, the registration of […]
Read moreWritten by: – Shilpa Chaudhury and Sanghamitra Panda In 2011, a certain crested macaque from Indonesia named “Naruto” became famous overnight. Selfies turned into a sensational news. The selfies were not associated with any human, rather it was of Naruto. PETA, usually known as, People for the Ethical Treatments for Animals, claimed Naruto’s right over […]
Read moreWritten By: Suhani Pattnaik Entertainment industry being home to many artistic skills and creative works can be a huge legal minefield. An iota of carelessness can jeopardize the whole cinematographic creation. We have seen movie producers and scriptwriters getting entangled in legal disputes, putting their investment worth millions of dollars at stake. It’s a common […]
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