Archive for November, 2021

A person is only allowed to get one patent for one innovation. This is still the practise because if this principle didn’t exist, a single inventor may have obtained many patents on a single innovation. This would result in the invention having a clear monopoly. However, it is not the goal of patent legislation around […]

More than 1.5 billion learners have had their educations disrupted since the worldwide lock-down started. As a result, online courses quickly became the standard to fill the void left by a global epidemic in the provision of education. The majority of schools and institutions around the world now use online learning. Despite its benefits, online […]

According to the Copyright Act, a work of joint authorship is one generated by the collaboration and cooperation of more than one author whereby each author’s effort is equal to the other author’s contribution. In India, a copyright law stipulates that an author is a person who creates a work that can be authored and […]

Paparazzi are freelance/ independent photographers who take random or candid pictures of celebrities/high profile people, generally, while they go about their daily routine, and sell such photographs to media houses/newspapers/magazines[1] or exploit it commercially in any other manner, to make a living. A photograph is considered to be an artistic work[2] protectable under the copyrights regime in […]