Sectors · Technology and services
Media and entertainment
Media, broadcasting and streaming businesses carry intellectual property exposure alongside contract and regulatory risk: copyright in the content, the terms on which it is licensed and distributed, broadcasting regulation and the law of defamation and personality rights.
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What this covers
- Copyright enforcement and infringement proceedings
- Content licensing and distribution agreement disputes
- Defamation proceedings
- Talent and artist contract disputes
- Broadcasting and Ministry of Information and Broadcasting compliance
- Content regulation for streaming platforms
- Film financing and co-production agreement disputes
- Personality and image rights enforcement
The notes behind these capabilities
An assignment of copyright under sections 18 and 19 of the Copyright Act, 1957 passes only what the written instrument identifies: the work, the rights, the term and the territory. Where it is silent, section 19 supplies five years and India, and a right the assignee does not exercise within one year lapses unless the instrument says otherwise. Two things stay with the author whatever the instrument says: an equal share of royalties for most uses of a literary or musical work in a cinematograph film, and for any use of one in a sound recording outside a film, which the 2012 provisos make non-waivable, and the moral rights in section 57. Disputes go to the Commercial Court under section 19A, a forum that the Tribunals Reforms Act, 2021 put in place of the Appellate Board.
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Practice areas that apply
- Boardroom and corporate
- Transaction advisory
- Capital markets
- Contracts and procurement
- IP and licensing
- Civil disputes
- PMLA
- Technology, data and product
- Employment
- Taxation and fiscal
- White-collar and cyber defence
- AI, data and emerging technology
- Cyber crime
- Public law and public interest litigation
- Technology disputes
- Money recovery
- Foreign exchange (FEMA)
- Prevention of sexual harassment (POSH)
- Employee's Compensation
- GST disputes
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