Hyperlinks and Copyright Infringement (0)
2/01/10 •
A hyperlink usually links one document (an anchor) on the Internet to another document (the target). Usually referred to as a links, hyperlinks may be one directional, bi-directional or may be used in more complex patterns.
There are several types of hyperlinks, with the common ones being:
Surface links which link to the homepage of another website;
Deep [...]
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Audio-Visual Recordings and the Broadcast Reproduction Right (0)
1/04/10 •
By Nandita Saikia
There are times when the use of ‘and/or’ can be annoying. In a blog post, speaking of contracts, Ken Adams suggests that you ‘steer clear of ‘and/or’ unless using it would spare you some verbiage’. The ‘and/or’ alternative certainly is more compact but it stinks of legalese and isn’t especially pleasing to the [...]
Rapist Claims Copyright (0)
12/19/09 •
True, the threshold for ‘copyrightability’ is low for literary (and other) works. A literary work must be original. It should not infringe another work’s copyright. It should be written or otherwise fixed in a tangible form. Writing it should generally involve some form of skill and labour being expended. And it need not contain an [...]
Wherever, Whenever, Whatever (0)
11/20/09 •
It isn’t unusual to have a contract which assigns “all rights in perpetuity throughout the world”. Obtaining worldwide rights isn’t enough to satisfy some entities though and they’ve begun to have contracts drafted in which rights are assigned “throughout the universe”.
The phrase “throughout the universe” isn’t commonly used in India but seems to be becoming [...]
India and the Google Book Settlement (0)
11/16/09 •
The Google Book Settlement has been widely debated. As Wikipedia explains, ‘the Google Book Search settlement agreement is the settlement agreement reached in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York after the Authors Guild and the Association of American Publishers sued Google in 2005 citing “massive copyright infringement” related to [...]
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