Intellectual Property Law
On Thievery
Alok Kejriwal the founder of games2win.com has written a snappy piece on successfully shifting his business model due to mass piracy of the games created by his company. He shifted from a proprietary format of content creation for revenue generation to embedding advertisements and products in his games. Hence every time his flash game was [...]
Patent Absurdity
I recently saw a documentary on the US Patent system, specifically focusing on the Bilski Case. Makes an excellent case against software patents which it compares to a, “tax” on software companies. You can watch it at the following link
bilski delivered
Bilski v. Kappos was one of the most anticipated decisions on patent law by SCOTUS (Supreme Court of the United States). Law geeks (like me ?) used to run weekly checks on the status of the case. The stakes involved in Bilski were huge and it promised to be the Sony v. Universal Studios (where [...]
Consilience 2010 | A Confrence on Internet intermediary liability in India | May 29-30, 2010 | Bangalore
Internet Intermediary Liability is no longer the dark horse in the field of technology law. With the increasing controversy around it resulting in the arrest of a CEO of a multinational company, [The Bazee.com case] and in light of the recent amendments to the IT Act, the topic has received much attention, with increasing apprehension [...]
Standing Committee on Human Resource Development Invites Suggestions on the Copyright (Amendment) Bill, 2010
The Copyright (Amendment) Bill, 2010 which is presently pending before the Lok Sabha has been referred to a standing committee headed by Mr. Oscar Fernandes for examination. The Committee has invited suggestions which may be emailed to sundrial@sansad.nic.in within 15 days. For a copy of the advertisement published in national dailies click here. Expect much [...]
First Impressions on the Copyright Amendment Bill, 2010
Image via Wikipedia Thanks to PRS Legislative the Copyright Act Amendment Bill, 2010 is finally online. While glancing through the bill I noticed four provisions which can have direct impact on electronic commerce. The first two are exceptions from Copyright Liability where provisions have been inserted to further shield intermediaries. Here, Sec. 52(1)(b) contains a [...]
Who am I to you?
Image via Wikipedia From the early 1980’s to the late 1990’s bollywood as a content production industry believed religiously in the application of “formulas” and “equations” for achieving success at the Box-Office. Rajshree Productions was one of the movie production houses which routinely used to practice this arithmetic. In the 1994 movie “Hum Aapke Hain [...]
Experts, Artists and Idiots
Image by Kaddele via Flickr There is rarely been a movie in which Aamir acted which I did not enjoy. His acting, performances and selection of collaborating film artists has been consistently excellent. However, even I know (not bieng the stardust reading type) that Aamir enjoys a bit of a reputation of a gadfly venturing [...]
A broader implementation of human readable contracts
The success and popularity of the creative commons license is symptomatic of the growing sentiment of Internet users and authors against the expansionary nature of intellectual property law. The creative commons license allows the authors of creative works to license out of default copyright provisions and allows greater rights to the users of their works. [...]
Article on Patent Law
Recently I was interviewed for an article, published in a I.T. Magazine titled, “Are Patents Blocking Indian Tech Innovation?”, interested readers can find the article on the following link.
