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Access to affordable medical care is a fundamental right of every human being. From the perspective of patent law, in India, generally the focus has been on pharmaceutical drugs and how patent law can balance the right of public to affordable drugs viz-a-viz the right of innovators. However, healthcare in the contemporary world extends far…

What are Gold Savings Scheme? Gold Savings Schemes are schemes generally offered by the jewellery shops allowing the consumer to purchase gold by making monthly payments not exceeding 11-12 months. For Gold Savings Schemes, generally the jewellers waive off / provide maturity discount for one / few month(s) (generally last month) of investment for the…

Authored by Saif Rahman Ansari, Co-authored by Mr. Krishna Tandon, fifth year student of B.A. LL.B from Vivekananda Institute of Professional Studies Introduction  In the recent years, it is the Micro, Small, and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) and startups that are  leading an innovation-based economy in India. These businesses drive the vision of 'Make in India', …

Well done! You’ve successfully managed level 1 (if not, it would be best that you cross level 1 before proceeding further) and now know how to navigate the choppy waters of gambling law(s) when sailing in a ship full of loot boxes. Unfortunately, the voyage is not yet over and up ahead lies the consumer…

In a host of the cases filed in the US against Gen AI developers, one of the primary allegations concern unauthorized access and use of publicly available works for training. The allegations concern scraping of publicly available works, which are protected by copyright, for extracting meta-information to train and make Gen AI models capable of…

Ex Parte Orders on Personality Rights Courts lately have been passing a slew of ex-parte ad interim orders against Generative Artificial Intelligence (‘gen AI’) models for training their models using the voices of celebrities, and for producing output that reciprocates the celebrity’s voice. (Not their performance, just their voice! The difference is crucial!) Most recently,…

Embracing the wisdom of Walt Disney, who once said, "The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing." Similarly, many commercial ventures are initiated in the present moment, with substantive discussions and negotiations deferred for a later stage. While the wheels of business turn swiftly to bring transactions into effect, the process…

Over the past few years loot boxes have attracted heightened interest amongst regulatory authorities for their alleged potentially addictive qualities or their misuse as novel instruments of money laundering. Loot boxes are not yet regulated in India. But the ever-expanding Indian online gaming market (slated to reach $7 billion by 2026) would likely soon bring…

In the first article in the series, we explored the potential causes of action that a voice artist (like Lehrman) could bring against an AI tool developer (like Lovo) under Indian Data Protection laws. In this second article, we examines the potential causes of action under the Indian Consumer Protection Act, 2019 (“CPA”), by analysing…

In Part 3 of the Series, we explored the output side of things - showing how if the output generated by the Generative AI model is substantially similar or a trivial alteration, or an adaptation in a different format of a work, it may infringe the rights of the copyright owner. However, who will be…