Intellectual Property Rights : Issues and Challenges in Music and Entertainment Industries

Contents Foreword. Preface. I 1. Intellectual Property Rights in music to sue or not to sue/Joseph Phookkat. 2. Creating a viable music industry IPR issues and challenges/Pallavi Dixit. 3. Music licensing striking the right note/Vipul Pradhan. 4. Analysis of music piracy and its solution in the new millennium/Anirbhan Gupta and Jitendra Singh. 5. Music industry key issues threats and opportunities/Savio D'Souza. 6. Copyright in the cultural industries/Abhishek Malhotra. II 7. Technological protection measures for computer software and other digital products/R.C. Tripathi. 8. Digital copyright understanding the issues for evolving strategy for dispute settlement/K.N. Chaturvedi. 9. Digital Rights Management/Anurika Vaish. 10. DRM and music industry/M.D. Tiwari. 11. Intellectual Property Right and internet issues and challenges/S.K. Verma. 12. IPR in information technology/Tabrez Ahmed. 13. Copyright internet use and abuse/K. Umadevi. 14. The dark side of Intellectual Property Right/Sounak Paul. III 15. Determinants of patent value an empirical investigation/R. Radhakrishnan and S. Balasubramanian. 16. Phenomenon of licensing and open source software/Sharique M. Rizvi and Madhvendra Misra. 17. Technology walking the thin line boon and bane for piracy Can it put the Fun back into entertaining/Shveta Singh. 18. Innovations for counterfeiting and piracy in the single market/J. Abhinav and K.S. Sachin. 19. Directors of photography and the issue of authorship/IPR (Cinematography as a creative profession)/Anoop Chatterjee. 20. Development of a game engine for FPS games/Kaushik Khatua and Anupam Agrawal. Authors contact information. The book is intended to enrich knowledge awareness and preparedness about Intellectual Property Rights and related issues involved in patenting and the challenges faced by the music and entertainment sector. The world in general and our country in particular is gearing up fast to a new patent regime. As an initiative of Indian Institute of Information Technology Allahabad a National Seminar was held on the Role of Intellectual Property issues and challenges in I.T. and entertainment industry. The book contains important contributions presented by eminent academicians and professionals during the seminar. It aims to throw enormous light on the intricacies of IPR in the music and entertainment arena. Like an important contribution on digital copyright traces the history of patenting life forms and thereafter outlines the various issues regarding patenting and also the issues for evolving strategies for dispute settlement where music industry is concerned. IPR and the associated laws in various fields like Intellectual Property Rights and Internet Issues and Challenges DRM Music Licensing Innovations for Counterfeiting and Piracy in the single market etc are discussed in detail. The role of copyright in the cultural industry digital rights management and its role in the music industry has also been discussed in detail to add value to the book. 222 pp.…