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		<title>Spinoffs and Sequels</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Jul 2010 09:38:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It looks like Michael Douglas and his ex-wife Diandre are set to debate the difference between these two forms of derivative works &#8212; sequels and spinoffs &#8212; in Court. Under the terms of their divorce, Diandre is entitled to fifty per cent of income from spinoffs of movies in which Michael Douglas acted before their [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Copyright Amendment Bill, 2010</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Apr 2010 12:27:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The has been introduced in the Rajya Sabha, and has been referred to a Select Committee chaired by Mr. Oscar Farnandes. In 2006, the Indian Copyright Office first put up a draft of the proposed amendments to the Copyright Act, 1957. The 2010 version is significantly different from the 2006 version, and is also not identical to the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Films and the Copyright Amendment</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Feb 2010 19:23:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Read the entire paper on &#8220;Films and the Copyright Amendment Bill, 2010&#8243; at SSRN here. Download the entire paper from SSRN. (The post below is a part of the paper.) In 2006, the Copyright Office first put up a draft of proposed amendments to the Copyright Act on its website. Since then, the proposed amendments [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rapist Claims Copyright</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Dec 2009 16:08:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[True, the threshold for &#8216;copyrightability&#8217; is low for literary (and other) works. A literary work must be original. It should not infringe another work&#8217;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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>India and the Google Book Settlement</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Nov 2009 08:01:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 &#8220;massive copyright infringement&#8221; related to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Facebook URLs</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Jun 2009 18:53:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A short while ago, Facebook announced personalised URLs. For most individual users, this is probably little other than an additional feature. However, for companies, brands, products, services and public figures, it could have important intellectual property implications. If such entities / celebrities have active Facebook accounts, it would make sense for them to reserve unique [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Pirates Flounder</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Apr 2009 06:28:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Shyam Somanadh Entertainment Industry Wins Pirate Bay Case, Loses $390 MN business opportunity By now it is all over the place that Pirate Bay (or at least the four defendants) has lost its lawsuit regarding their enablement of piracy using the website. Neither will this ensure that piracy related to entertainment will come to [...]]]></description>
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