June 9, 2025
Intangible Assets

The Copyright Battle in Indian Cinema: Who Owns What?

The Copyright Act defines a “performance” as any live visual or acoustic presentation by one or more performers [Sec. 2 (q), Copyright Act]. A “performer” includes actors, singers, musicians, dancers, among other artists engaged in a performance. [Sec. 2 (qq), Copyright Act] It is noteworthy that the work of an actor in a film does

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Intangible Assets

DPIIT withdraws memo on extending scope of copyright rule to internet | News

1 min read Last Updated : Aug 22 2024 | 11:32 PM IST The Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade (DPIIT) has withdrawn an office memorandum of September 2016 regarding extending the scope of a rule of copyright law to internet transmissions. In 2016, through an office memorandum, the government decided

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