Similar to All I Want For Christmas is You, Tupac’s Dear Mama has been named in a copyright suit some 30 years after it hit the charts, but the two cases are fundamentally different.
Granting relief to the Apollo group, the Madras High Court recently observed that the trademark “Apollo” was a well-known mark in the healthcare and pharmaceutical industry and was entitled to.
The Gujarat High Court has ruled that duplicate spare parts of computer hardware are not literary, musical or artistic works and therefore an FIR cannot be lodged for violation of the Copyright Act,.
The court said though there can be no objection in the actual reproduction of the text of Shrimad Bhagavad Gita or other spiritual books, the manner in which they are interpreted by different gurus and spiritual teachers 'copyright would vest in respect of the original parts of the literary works which preach, teach or explain the scripture'