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by Devlin Hartline Cross-posted on the Copyhype blog. In the never-ending copyright debate, one often comes across certain words the usage of which both sides vehemently disagree upon. One such point of contention is the use of the word “theft...

Updated: Video added to guide 'IP BASICS: My business is a victim of IP Crime'. 1. Criminal offences (counterfeiting and piracy) Infringement of trade marks and copyrights can be criminal offences, as well as being actionable in civil law. A range...

Held When an action, if onerously done is not an offence, it cannot become an offence when, owing to advancement in technology doing thereof has been simplified. That is what has happened in the present case. In the times when I was studying law, the...

In this blog post, Tejaswinee Roychowdhury, pursuing M.A. in business law from NUJS, Kolkata, talks about the remedies a producer have if his movie is dubbed in a regional language without his consent. Introduction The first question that arises is...

A brush with the law? Merpel surreptitiously uses the IPKat's toothbrush When this Kat was but a kitten, British copyright law had a remedial provision which other IP rights lacked and which was so good that we all knew it couldn't last.  That was the...