Tag: copyright laws

  • The DU Photocopying Case: Opening the Floodgates of Open Access in Indian Education

    By Somya Pahi Jena, NALSAR, Hyderabad Within the premises of the Delhi School of Economics, is situated Rameshwari Photocopy Services, owned by Dharam Pal Singh. To the unassuming eye, it is an ordinary photocopy shop but over the past few months, it found itself at the centre of a watershed legal tussle involving Indian copyright…

  • Google Books Case: An Analysis

    By Tarunika Rajesh, Law College Dehradun, Uttaranchal University. Copyright laws are a wide, all inclusive, dynamic and developing segment of the Intellectual Property Rights, which is under thorough scrutiny and examination for trying and striving hard towards creating a balance between the liberties and freedom of people involved in the capacity of a writer, publisher, artiste,…

  • Architectural Work under the Indian Copyright Regime

    By Bharat Kumar Singh, Student at National University of Study and Research in Law, Ranchi. In the field of architecture, architects and engineers depend primarily on copyright laws and contractual provisions to protect their original work. The protection of architectural works through copyright laws against infringement and imitation was brought up on an international scale…