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AI & Copyright: Who Owns Art by Machines?
AI as an Author: Navigating Copyright Ownership in the Age of Generative AI The emergence of Generative AI certainly brought about a new burst of creativity, such that a person sitting at a keyboard can become a 'creator.' From realistic images of astronauts on unicorns to sophisticated descriptions of complicated subjects, AI accomplishes things we previously believed to be possible for humans alone. However, it has posed a challenge to classical copyright law, a regime craf
Nov 144 min read


Copyrighting Rituals: A Misplaced Endeavour at the Jagannath Temple
Introduction Can sacred rituals, passed down through generations and collectively inherited, be ‘owned’? This is a profound question that...
Sep 226 min read


Protecting AI-Generated Works: Navigating Copyright Challenges in Intellectual Property Law
Introduction Artificial Intelligence has come a long way from its early days as simply a tool for automation. Currently, AI can paint...
Sep 185 min read


THE COPYRIGHT CONUNDRUM: ANI VS OPENAI AND THE FIGHT FOR FAIR USE
“Independent Journalism is vital to our democracy. It is also increasingly rare and valuable.” These were the opening lines of the New...
Mar 2614 min read
Fair Use in Parody and Satire: Analysing the Boundaries of Creative Expression in Common Law Countries.
INTRODUCTION Parody, an art form as old as Aristophanes, raises an interesting tension in copyright law where it conflicts with the idea...
Dec 14, 20248 min read
Authorship vs. Ownership: Decoding the Doctrine of Work for Hire
INTRODUCTION In copyright law, the difference between authorship and ownership is a key factor in deciding who actually holds the...
Nov 26, 20247 min read


The Judicial Interpretation And Legislative Dichotomy On Royalty Payable To Playback Singers
INTRODUCTION: When a playback singer has rights to their song, they may be entitled to a royalty payment. The main issue is whether or...
Nov 16, 20225 min read
Khurana & Khurana Opens Jalandhar (Punjab) Office
Khurana & Khurana, Advocates and IP Attorneys (K&K) along with its IP Asset Management Practice, IIPRD, are happy to announce that they...
May 11, 20192 min read
Jurisdiction of Courts Under Section 62 of the Copyright Act and Section 134 of the Trademarks Act
The Hon’ble Supreme Court of India in “ INDIAN PERFORMING RIGHTS SOCIETY LTD. Versus. SANJAY DALIA AND ORS”: (2015) 10 SCC 161 and the...
Mar 14, 20164 min read
Music Rights for Use in Films
In recent times, music copyrights and their ownership/rights to producers, artists, among other stakeholders, have been under strong...
Jan 9, 20153 min read
Criminalizing online sharing of Academic Article by a Columbian Student
Background Diego Gomez is a student perusing post graduation in Conservation and Wildlife Management in Costa Rica. Like students of...
Sep 1, 20149 min read
Copyrights Enjoyed By Musicians
Sanyukta Biswas, an intern at Khurana and Khurana, Advocates and IP Attorneys, looks at the rights of singer, lyricist and composer that...
Dec 16, 20138 min read
Copyfight or Copyright?- An analysis on the legal scenario of parallel importation
On 19 March, 2013, in a closely divided 6-3 judgment in Kirtsaeng v. John Wiley,the U.S. Supreme Court held that copyright law could not...
Mar 28, 20133 min read
Infringement of comic characters- Comic con?
Graphical characters are commercialized in the form of cartoons, posters, food products or merchandises like toys and clothes, to name a...
Dec 1, 20124 min read
Smile, you are on camera!
Every celebrity would agree when we say that stardom comes at a price. Their right to privacy is always threatened with the constant...
Aug 28, 20123 min read
Viacom vs. YouTube
Technology seems to have found its place in the courtrooms also, these days. Viacom, an American global mass media company, sued YouTube,...
Apr 22, 20123 min read
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