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We blog exclusively on Indian intellectual property and innovation law and policy issues in the form of news updates, case analysis, legal discussions, policy recommendations and IP related events.
Overview
Location
India
Employees
1-10
Founded date
2005
Mentions in press and media 18
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| Sep 7, 2023 | Hollywood’s Latest Pirate Site Blocking Injunction Covers ‘Future Content’ | Like many other countries around the world, India’s copyright law allows rightsholders to limit access to pirate sites. This legal tool is widely used by the major Hollywood studios. These companies regularly obtain injunctions that require... |
| May 26, 2023 | Court Orders Instagram to Expose Pirates, Boot Their Accounts, and Purge URLs | Similar to any other online platform that deals with user-generated content, Instagram processes copyright complaints on a daily basis. Most of these arrive in the form of DMCA notices, in which rightsholders requests the removal of a speci... |
| Jan 12, 2021 | Twitter Bans Sci-Hub's Account Because Of 'Counterfeit Goods' Policy, As Indian Copyright Case Heats Up | A couple of weeks ago, Techdirt wrote about an important copyright case in India, where a group of academic publishers is seeking a dynamic injunction to block access to the “shadow libraries” Sci-Hub and Libgen. The person behind Sci-Hub, ... |
| Jan 12, 2021 | Twitter Bans Sci-Hub's Account Because Of 'Counterfeit Goods' Policy, As Indian Copyright Case Heats Up | A couple of weeks ago, Techdirt wrote about an important copyright case in India, where a group of academic publishers is seeking a dynamic injunction to block access to the "shadow libraries" Sci-Hub and Libgen. The person behind... |
| Jan 7, 2021 | Judge: Sci-Hub Blocking Case “Important” For Science, Community Representations Will Be Heard | On December 21, 2020, academic publishers Elsevier, Wiley, and American Chemical Society filed a lawsuit demanding that Indian ISPs block access to Sci-Hub and Libgen. The companies accuse the platforms of engaging in large-scale copyright ... |
| Mar 14, 2019 | Bogus DMCA Takedown Targeting Indian Copyright Blog Demonstrates The Problems Of Notice And Takedown | If you’re unfamiliar with it, the SpicyIP blog is a wonderful blog covering issues related to copyright and patents in India. We’ve linked to it a bunch over the past decade. And now it’s going through something of a rite of passage for sit... |
| Mar 3, 2019 | Record Label Targets Copyright Experts With “Bogus” Takedown Request | Takedown notices are a particularly useful tool for copyright holders who want to make sure that infringing copies of their work are not widely distributed. Every single day, rightsholders and their representatives scour the web for referen... |
| Mar 13, 2017 | Photocopying Textbooks Is Fair Use In India: Western Publishers Withdraw Copyright Suit Against Delhi University | Back in September last year, Mike wrote about the remarkable court ruling in India that copyright is not inevitable, divine or a natural right. As we have been reporting since 2013, the case in question was brought by three big Western publ... |
| Jan 5, 2017 | Indian High Court Blocks Rent-Seeking Collection Societies From Seeking Any More Rent | Ben Challis of the 1709 Blog reports that one of India’s top courts has just cut a few performance royalty “collection societies” off at the knees. |
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FAQ about SpicyIP
When was SpicyIP founded?
SpicyIP was founded in 2005.
What has the press written about SpicyIP?
Parsers VC has collected 18 articles mentioning SpicyIP, among them “Hollywood’s Latest Pirate Site Blocking Injunction Covers ‘Future Content’” (Sep 7, 2023) and “Court Orders Instagram to Expose Pirates, Boot Their Accounts, and Purge URLs” (May 26, 2023).
Is SpicyIP still active?
Yes, SpicyIP is active; its latest activity on Parsers VC dates from Jan 10, 2026.