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Author: Sannidhi Chakrala, Chanakya National Law University Patent- meaning: Patent, in the context of Intellectual property law, is the exclusive or the sole right of an individual (inventor/patentee) to exclude others from manufacturing, using, selling or importing his/her invention without his/her permission. Once the said invention has been granted a patent, it imposes a legal...
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What are the Bollywood Amendments? The “Bollywood Amendments” refer to those amendments that were enacted to modify the Copyright Act, 1957. These Amendments can be noted vide the Copyright (Amendment) Bill, 2010 and the enactment of Copyright (Amendment) Act, 2012. The Bollywood Amendments were enacted primarily to strengthen the position of music composers and lyricists...
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Author: Natesh Kumar ABSTRACT This article would explore the stance of copyright laws in cases of orphan and anonymous works i.e. cases wherein the owner is anonymous or cannot be contacted. The issues associated with orphan works are also addressed to which the corresponding solutions and recommendations are discussed. The latter part of the paper...
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Author: T. Sreenitya Copyright is one of the kinds of intellectual property rights granted to an author of an original work. The work can be of any kind, like, art work, literary work, music, drama, software codes, etc. such right allows the author to have sole ownership over the work. The widely accepted definition is...
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By Vishruti Chauhan & Pratyusha Ganesh, Symbiosis Law School, Hyderabad.   The term Artificial Intelligence was coined by John McCarthy at a conference in 1956.[1] The term was used for the ability of the computers to take decision by itself without human interference with the use of algorithms and commands.[2] It was thought by early...
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Pratyusha Ganesh is a final year law student at Symbiosis, Hyderabad. She is also a paralegal and has been working with Wordict-IP for over three months, starting July ’21.  —– On 27th May, 2021, the NITI Aayog released a press statement, titled ‘Myths & Facts on India’s Vaccination Process’ and it seemed to be problematic...
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Introduction From the early beginnings of competition law, a major concern with granting intellectual property rights to authors and creators has always been the possibility of stagnating competition. As granting an exclusive right can lead to having detrimental effects such as abuse of being a monopoly. Both intellectual property law and competition law appear to...
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Abstract The fashion industry holds a prominent position in today’s world. The relation between human lifestyle and fashion is almost inseparable and so, the relation between fashion and IPR. The very birth of fashion is due to creativity. But with the growing technology and advancement, there are instances of easy copying and piracy due to...
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