Introduction What will happen if the copyright law, made to protect creativity, becomes a weapon to silence it? This question came alive in a recent controversy between Asian News International (‘ANI’) and Mohak Mangal, a YouTuber, along with several prominent Indian social media creators in May 2025. They alleged ANI of leveraging copyright claims and forcing creators to pay large sums of money for using short clips of ANI in their content. In May 2025, YouTuber Mohak Mangal

Introduction The nascent field of Fashion Law owes a sizeable proportion of its burgeoning body of scholarly writing and interest to its intersection with intellectual property law and related areas. More specifically, the issue of cultural appropriation wherein multinational fashion houses and brands incorporate designs and elements of traditional items of clothing or accessories associated with communities and cultures in third-world countries into their own lines or produc

For several decades now, Indian courts have earned a reputation for unrestrained judicial activism in the fields of political, social,...

Introduction In the previous part of this post, we discussed the integral role of GI tags in any economy and the great potential that...