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Marking a significant progress of the Indian subcontinent in the area of trademark law, India acceded to the Madrid Protocol on 8th April 2013, making the same effective in India beginning 8th July 2013, as per the Information Notice No. 15/2013 dated 29th May, 2013 issued by WIPO and Public Notice issued by the Controller General of Patents, Designs and Trademarks (CGPDTM) on 8th July 2013. A notification dated 5th July 2013, issued by the Ministry of Commerce and Industry, DIPP, also notified that the Trade Marks (Amendment) Rules, 2013 which incorporate provisions relating to international registration of trademarks as under the Madrid Protocol, and brings in some amendments to the existing law, have also come into force from the 8th of July 2013.

After covering a varied number of concepts on Trademarks and concepts related to that, we present this write up on Copyright Protection in India. COPYRIGHTS The other day we received a call from one of our long time clients congratulating us on starting to post our write ups and website content on another website. We did not know anything about this and went to that website to find that, to our surprise, all our content including research material and articles were posted on that website by another person we did not know. We, as a firm, dear readers, invest time and research in creating these write ups and research works and convert our ideas into words. By doing so, we inherently create a copyright in such matter and write ups. It is a different issue that we went against the person infringing on our copyright, but this brings us to the topic for this classroom post this time- Copyrights.

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The menace of online piracy is increasing by the day and causes widespread copyright infringement. Piracy is the unauthorized duplication of an original recording for commercial gain without the consent of the right owner. It costs the Music Industry and the Government millions of rupees each year [1] . Taking initiative in eradicating this illegal activity, last week the Indian Music Industry (IMI), a consortium of 142 music companies including several prominent regional and national labels, obtained orders from the Calcutta High Court directing Internet Service Providers (ISPs) to block access to 104 music sites from India infringing music copyright (List of website available here Medianama ). The orders direct a total of 387 ISPs to block access to the 104 websites within 36 hours of date of intimation. These websites illegally allow the downloading of songs which results in piracy.