India: Copyright

The dispute had its origins in 2014, when Vodafone signed agreements with Saregama to use songs for its caller tune and ringtone value-added services (VAS). IPRS maintained that while music labels own the copyright in sound recordings, lyricists and composers retain separate rights in the underlying literary and musical works.

The global intellectual property landscape is undergoing a fundamental transformation as traditional enforcement mechanisms prove inadequate against the speed and scale of digital infringement.

Cosplay, short for ‘costume play’, refers to people dressing up in costumes portraying characters of anime, manga, video games, films, or comic books. A hobby confined to conventions is now worth multi-billion dollars in terms of revenue being generated by way of selling the costumes, social media monetization, and cosplay contests during the conventions, and professionally performing the character impersonations.

Anytime you type a query into Chat GPT or prompt any AI to write something, you are interacting with a model that has been trained on a massive corpus of text-books, articles, web pages, etc. The vast majority of that text belongs to somebody else.

“It’s about giving people back control over how they appear in the digital world.” – Jakob Engel-Schmidt, Danish Minister of Culture

The Supreme Court of India (“Supreme Court”) in Sujoy Ghosh vs. State of Jharkhand and Anr.1, delivered a significant ruling reiterating that where quashing of criminal proceedings is sought on the ground that the complaint is frivolous, vexatious, or malicious, the court is not confined to the bare averments in the complaint/First Information Report (“FIR”). It may examine the attendant circumstances and materials on record (including undisclosed or exculpatory material) to determine whether a prima facie offence is genuinely made out or whether the proceedings amount to an abuse of process.

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India has significantly strengthened its IP ecosystem, with over one lakh patents granted between March 2023 and March 2024.