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In this blog-post, Disha Pareek, a student of RGNUL, Punjab discusses raids conducted in cases of software piracy. The blog post focuses on the rights of defendants (the one who is being raided). Introduction The issue of software raids, which is much...

The IPKat is delighted to receive this guest post from long time Katfriend Prashant Reddy (details at the end of the post). Academic publishing houses, OUP and CUP have suffered yet another defeat in their litigation against Delhi University and a photocopy...

Abstract: ‘TV is galloping in; the country has sixty million homes with TV, of which twenty eight million are cabled, bringing to city and hamlet alike a choice of around a hundred channels. ‘There are now more TV channels available in Mumbai than in...

If you are a cinema lover and heavy user of torrents, then there is good news for you: Watching pirated content is not a crime. In an interesting ruling, Bombay High Court has clarified that the mere act of watching a pirated movie is not criminal,...

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...