Consider the following scenario. A brand manager at a well-known consumer goods company. One morning, a colleague sends him a link. It’s a sixty-second video with slick production values, in which the company’s logo sits prominently on a product that the company has never manufactured, their trademarked jingle plays in the background, and a […]
The policy proposal, One Nation One License One Payment proceeds to a drastic re-tuning of an age of generative artificial intelligence of copyright governance. The heart of it is a doctrinal shift; one grounded in consent exclusivity is substituted with liability rule, supported by royalty, to have works that were copyrighted be used in AI
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Introduction The fundamental purpose of copyright law is the protection of original expressions of ideas, stemming from principles of fair play. But copyright law is not restricted to just such protections. It also involves a bargain between the need to foster innovation by incentivising the producers of intellectual property, and the interests of the public
Introduction A major development in the battle between shadow libraries like sci-hub and libgen (the ‘pirates’ of academia) and academic publishers like Elsevier came when the Delhi High Court (‘DHC’), in late August 2025, ordered in Elsevier Ltd. v Alexandra Elbakyan CS(COMM) 572/2020 the blocking of sci-hub and its mirror sites citing non-compliance with its
