For years, Indian intellectual property law has danced a tango between copyright and design protection, especially when artistic works take an industrial turn. In the recent judgment, Cryogas Equipmen...
Published On: 20/03/2020
Practice Area: Intellectual Property
Authors:
Aditi Verma Thakur
Parul Prasad
Recently, the Madras High Court in a copyright infringement dispute between Indian Record Manufacturing Co. Ltd. and Mr. Illaiyaraja, revisited the principles of first ownership and assignment of copyrights with respect to musical works constituting underlying works in cinematograph films under the Copyright Act, 1957. The Court discussed the rights of composers of the underlying works, producers of films in which such underlying works are used, and the assignees of such works. INDUSLAW’s Aditi Verma Thakur and Parul Prasad discuss.
