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Indian Copyright Law: A Primer

Indian Copyright Law: A Primer  v1.1 Note  This document intends to provide a very quick introduction to Indian copyright law.  It is geared towards focusing on those aspects of the Indian Copyright Act, 1957, which are most closely associated with GenAI, and does not provide an overview of the statute as a whole. Instead, it aims to help elucidate, in basic terms, the legal framework through which the possibility of GenAI infringing copyright is understood at the points of: content input, data processing, and output generation.  It does not comment on any of these issues itself and merely provides background information which could help facilitate discussion. In doing so, it streamlines legal explanations, distills the Indian copyright statute, (over)simplifies statutory caveats, and sacrifices nuance in the service of brevity and what one hopes is clarity.  The document cannot and should not be relied on for any purpose other than to help develop an extremely ...

Personality Rights: The Battle for the Self

. an overview of personality rights law in India weaving together thoughts on law, technology, culture and enforcement mechanisms Draft 1.1 (12 September 2025) (A demonstration of the dulcimer player, an 18th century automaton, said to feature Marie Antoinette; Source: https://youtu.be/nITEU4fsqCU ) The Inanimate and the Fantastic Sometimes anthropomorphic, at other times, decidedly not, automata have long been a source of unease to humans: they have straddled the line between the animate and the inanimate, between human beings and machines, never quite one or the other in myth, in history which may as well be myth, and increasingly, in what we believe to be ‘real’ life not so much through the mechanical automata of yore but through what could be considered to be their contemporary digital counterparts: deepfakes, intangible and deceptive. Automata were as gifts to the powerful not least during the Enlightenment, perhaps reminding recipients that those who presented them possessed cons...