IT committee asks MIB to overview legal guidelines in view of Ranveer Allahbadia controversy
The controversy surrounding content material creator Ranveer Allahbadia has caught the eye of Parliament, with round eight MPs elevating the problem throughout a gathering of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Info Know-how and Communications on February 13.
Following the assembly, the committee dispatched a communication to Ministry of Info and Broadcasting (MIB) secretary Sanjay Jaju asking the ministry to offer a word by February 17 on crucial amendments to clamp down on controversial content material.
Tamil Nadu notifies stricter guidelines for real-money gaming, efficient instantly
Beneath these guidelines, real-money gaming platforms must impose ‘clean hours’ between midnight and 5 am, disabling login throughout these restricted 5 hours.
The rules additionally prohibit minors from taking part in real-money video games and mandate corporations to supply gamers the power to set day by day, weekly and month-to-month financial limits.
Moreover, platforms ought to show pop-up warning messages when a participant has been taking part in for a couple of hour, and proceed to show them each half-hour to remind them of their playtime. Actual-money gaming apps must also repeatedly show warning messages in regards to the addictive nature of those video games, with the wordings “ONLINE GAMING IS ADDICTIVE IN NATURE” on their respective login pages.
Every time gamers deposit the cash, RMG apps must also show the fastened financial restrict and the quantity spent thus far, in “fairly daring letters”, the rules acknowledged.
Different measures embody necessary Know Your Buyer (KYC) verification on the time of account creation. The preliminary login authentication would require KYC verification by Aadhaar, authenticated by a second-layer verification by One Time Password (OTP) despatched to the cellphone quantity linked to the Aadhaar quantity.
The Indian Music Trade (IMI), T-Collection, and Saregama India Ltd. have filed an intervention within the ANI vs. OpenAI case earlier than the Delhi Excessive Court docket
IMI, T-Collection and Saregama, have filed an intervention utility looking for to hitch a copyright lawsuit in opposition to OpenAI in New Delhi, highlighting worries about improper use of recordings to coach AI fashions, authorized paperwork present.
The music labels need to be a part of a lawsuit launched final 12 months by Indian information company ANI that accused OpenAI’s ChatGPT utility of utilizing its content material with out permission to coach AI fashions.
The subsequent listening to within the lawsuit, which is seen as shaping the way forward for how AI fashions use copyright content material in India, is ready for Feb. 21.
OpenAI chief Sam Altman visited India final week, assembly the infotech minister, and discussing the nation’s plan to pursue low-cost AI.
HC requires report on Haji Ali Juice Centre trademark infringement row
The Bombay excessive courtroom not too long ago famous there was prima facie proof of Kerala-based Haji Ali Contemporary Fruit Juices “wilfully disobeying” its orders over a trademark dispute with Mumbai’s iconic Haji Ali Juice Centre.
“The conduct of the respondent prima facie exhibits that they’ve been wilfully disobeying the ad-interim order of this courtroom regardless of having been executed and the papers being served upon them,” the bench famous on February 4.
805 apps, 3,266 web sites blocked attributable to nationwide safety causes: Amit Shah
Union Dwelling Minister Amit Shah knowledgeable a parliamentary committee on Monday (February 10, 2025) that 805 cellular purposes and three,266 web site hyperlinks have been blocked thus far attributable to “nationwide safety” causes.
Saket District Court docket Imposes Rs.20 Lakh Value For Copyright Infringement Of Software program
The Saket District Business Court docket with its Bench comprising Justice Lokesh Kumar Sharma has imposed a penalty on Invent Solid Pvt. Ltd for infringing the copyright of software program developed by Seimen Industries Inc.
Sushant Singh Rajput’s father eager for ‘justice’ as Bombay Excessive Court docket agrees to listen to plea on actor’s dying
The Bombay Excessive Court docket is scheduled to listen to a Public Curiosity Litigation (PIL) on February 19, on the dying of actor Sushant Singh Rajput.
The PIL calls for the arrest and interrogation of Shiv Sena (UBT) MLA Aditya Thackeray in reference to the 2 deaths underneath mysterious circumstances
Gaming Trade Will Shut Down If Firms Want To Pay Rs. 1.1 Lakh Crore In Previous GST Calls for
The GST Council had on October 1, 2023, imposed a 28% tax on the complete face-value of participant collections on on-line real-money gaming platforms as a substitute of the earlier 18% on the income of corporations.
Jain, who had co-founded Dream11 in 2008 with Bhavit Sheth, says this demand is unviable and untenable.
He mentioned that fairly than looking for larger GST collections from corporations, the GST council ought to take a look at decreasing charges for the platforms with the tax being charged on gross gaming income (GGR) and never on the complete worth of collections from gamers.
HC grants aid to Jawed Habib in copyright infringement row
The Bombay Excessive Court docket granted ad-interim aid to hair stylist Jawed Habib, restraining Rashid Molla from utilizing his logos till the ultimate listening to.
After reviewing the paperwork, Justice Manish Pitale noticed a robust prima facie case in opposition to Molla for copyright infringement. “Until the ad-interim reliefs, as prayed, are granted, the applicant will proceed to endure grave and irreparable loss, thereby exhibiting that the stability of comfort is in favour of the applicant,” the courtroom famous.
The courtroom issued an injunction restraining Molla and his representatives from utilizing the marks “The Jawed Habib,” “Jawed Habib Hair & Magnificence,” and the “JH Brand” in reference to hair salon companies. The subsequent listening to is scheduled for March 25, 2025.
Kumar Sanu to get character rights protected, warns ‘AI is harmful’
In India, famend actors like Amitabh Bachchan, Anil Kapoor, and Jackie Shroff have already taken authorized measures to safeguard their character rights in opposition to potential misuse of this know-how. Now, legendary singer Kumar Sanu is making ready to comply with go well with. Recognized for his distinctive baritone, Sanu’s voice has been extensively mimicked. Involved in regards to the potential misuse of his voice, he’s decided to take motion.
Saket Court docket Imposes INR 20 Lakh Penalty on Invent Solid for Copyright Infringement of Siemens Software program
The Saket District Business Court docket, presided over by Justice Lokesh Kumar Sharma, imposed a penalty of INR 20 lakh on Invent Solid Pvt. Ltd. for utilizing Siemens’ NX software program (previously Unigraphics) with no legitimate license and issued a everlasting injunction prohibiting additional unauthorized use. Siemens Trade Software program Inc., a US-based firm specializing in Product Lifecycle Administration (PLM) software program, found that Invent Solid had an expired license whereas Exact Technocast had none, with unlicensed software program put in on a number of programs of their Gujarat unit. The defendants argued that Siemens India lacked the authority to file the go well with attributable to alleged defects within the energy of legal professional and copyright project, however the courtroom rejected these objections, affirming Siemens’ unique rights. Whereas Exact Technocast was not held liable attributable to inadequate proof, the courtroom denied Siemens’ declare for INR 16.59 crore in further damages for lack of proof of ongoing infringement. The defendants have been ordered to pay INR 20 lakh in damages with 8% annual curiosity from the go well with submitting date till realization, together with the go well with prices.
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AI Agency Cohere Sued By Publishers Over Copyright Infringement
A gaggle of stories publishers has sued synthetic intelligence (AI) agency Cohere for copyright infringement.
The federal lawsuit, filed Thursday (Feb. 13) in New York, accuses Cohere of improperly utilizing no less than 4,000 copyrighted works to coach its AI giant language mannequin, The Wall Avenue Journal (WSJ) reported Thursday.
As well as, the go well with additionally accuses Cohere of displaying giant parts of articles — if not articles of their entirety — whereas bypassing visits to the publishers’ web sites. And in some circumstances, the go well with mentioned, Cohere has infringed on publishers’ logos by producing “hallucinated” materials — with info that was by no means truly printed by the information outlet — underneath a writer’s identify.
China’s Supreme Court docket Orders ByteDance to Pay USD11 Million to Meishe for Code Plagiarism
Chinese language tech large ByteDance was dominated to pay CNY82.7 million (USD11.3 million) compensation to Chinese language audio-visual options supplier Meishe Community Know-how for software program code copyright infringement.
ByteDance discovered that an engineer who labored at Meishe and joined the corporate two and a half years later was answerable for the code copyright infringement, Vice President Li Liang mentioned in a press release yesterday. The engineer was fired.
In keeping with the ruling, the codes concerned within the case account for a really small proportion of the 2 corporations’ software program, equal to not more than 4 p.c of Meishe’s and 0.8 p.c of Douyin’s code, Li famous.
China’s Tencent wins video copyright infringement case in US district courtroom
A U.S. district courtroom has awarded Tencent practically $85 million in compensation after discovering that Taiwan-based TV field agency Unblock Tech and different distributors violated copyrights of video content material developed by the Chinese language tech large.
The case, introduced by items Tencent Penguin Movie, Tencent Pc System and Tencent Know-how accused the defendants of improperly copying, distributing and importing greater than 1,500 of its exhibits together with household drama “Little Days” and sci-fi blockbuster “Three Physique Drawback”.