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Music Piracy

Biswajit Sarkar Copyright Blog

Section 52 states that educational purposes, research, or criticism are all fair use and do not constitute copyright infringement. If a school organizes a performance on its grounds where pupils will put on a musical performance for their professors and classmates, it will be covered under the provision of fair use of copyright.

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Copyright Infringement and Music

Biswajit Sarkar Copyright Blog

According, to section 52 educational purposes, research or criticism are all fair use and do not attract copyright infringement. Even using a legal music streaming service to listen to music on your own phone and in your own house or in a private setting does not attract copyright infringement. Mannu Bhandari V.

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Bracing for Impact Keynote Address Tells a Copyright Story Never Told: Art and Copyright in Ghettos and Concentration Camps

IPilogue

Copyright law protects and should continue to protect communicative and dialogical spaces. Copyright laws should not stand between exposure to authenticity, but at the same time should not avoid dealing with illegal ownership claims.”. The authenticity of these works makes them a closed category.

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Copyright Infringement and Music

Biswajit Sarkar Copyright Blog

According, to section 52 educational purposes, research or criticism are all fair use and do not attract copyright infringement. Even using a legal music streaming service to listen to music on your own phone and in your own house or in a private setting does not attract copyright infringement. Mannu Bhandari V.

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Journey Through “Januarys” on SpicyIP (2005 – Present)

SpicyIP

More recently in 2020, Sankalp Jain discussed the copyright challenges in “Dreams,” a video game enabling user-generated content, arguing for the Indian copyright law’s limitations in addressing the the issues around the fan-made creations within the game.

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IT’S THE COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT FOR ME: WHY CLAIMS AGAINST MEME CONTENT SHOULD NOT MATTER

JIPL Online

ii] Existing copyright law is ineffective in its application to new forms of digital media. Thus, copyright enforcement mechanisms are out of their league, so to speak, with respect to their application in this new digital world. Miceli, Law and Economics: Private and Public 23 (West Academic Publishing 2018). [v]

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Journey Through “Novembers” on SpicyIP (2005 – Present)

SpicyIP

Spadika Jayaraj discussed a case where the Delhi High Court dismissed a suit by a media house accusing copyright infringement on its database of users. The issue has often arisen in the context of protecting confidential information through copyright law. E.g., see Prateek Surisetti’s post here and Niyati Prabhu’s post here.