Del HC decides appeal on radio stations’ royalty paying obligation by diminishing rights of lyricists and composers of music, follows Bom HC and Kerala HC in entitling only owner of sound recording to royalty [SpicyIP][Order]
US Court severes copyright infringement Bittorrent downloading cases against John Doe defendants, and quashes case against defendants, holding that IP address is not a person [Recording Industry Vs People]
Tripura, Manipur and Meghalaya depart from Guwahati HC benches for all seven N E states, to have an HC each of their own after passage of North-Eastern Areas (Re-organisation) and Other Related Laws (Amendment) Bill 2012 on 11 May 2012 [TOI]
CCI investigates Apple for marketing iphone 4 through select mobile phone operators, Google for abusive online advertising, seeks “dawn raid” powers to conduct surprise search and seizure, wants to scrutinize wider range of M&A [Wall Street Journal]
Delhi additional sessions judge Kamini Lau holds bill decreasing sexual consent age from 16 to 18 as regressive for punishing consensual adolescent sex, while acquiting a youth accused of kidnapping and raping a 17 and a half year old girl he married and is having child with [Firstpost]
Central Board of Customs & Excise eases “parallel imports” by notifying that IPR (Imported Goods) Enforcement Rules 2007 will not take away from non-IP-infringing effect given to Parallel Imports under Patents Act and Trademarks Act; Definition of “parallel imports” under Copyrights Act still awaited [SpicyIP][Circular]
13 out of 1,110 SEBI registered Foreign Institutional investors are operating through Mauritius in “impermissible arrangments” aimed at tax avoidance attracting the provisions of the now delayed-by-an-year GAAR [ET]
Regional bourses await new SEBI exit guidelines to clarify treatment of settlement guarantee fund and apportionment of asset sale proceeds to go to SEBI investor protection fund in compulsory and voluntary de-recognition [Mint]
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That was a careless error. Has now been corrected.
Thank you for pointing out.
Best wishes,
Prachi
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