Keyur Tripathi

The creative economy can be leveraged to revive economic growth in India. A large entertainment sector and diverse cultural traditions form a strong backbone of creative capital. The commercialization and monetization of creative works generate a chain of economic activity and drive the production and consumption of goods and services. Intellectual property rights, such as copyright, are at the heart of this process. Copyright provides incentives and protections for the production of new creative works. Despite this potential for generating growth and employment, the contribution of India’s creative economy was never measured using a verifiable methodology and data from the public domain, until now. The first step to realizing the economic potential of any sector or industry is to measure its existing value. The World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO) provides a standard methodology to evaluate the economic contribution of copyright-relevant industries in terms of value additio

What Is E-commerce? Any form of business transaction that is done online or virtually through the internet comes under e-commerce. The most common example of e-commerce can be online shopping (shopping from Amazon, Myntra, and Shein, etc). It can also entail other types of activities such as online auctions, payment gateways, online ticketing, and internet banking. There has been a rapid increase in the way people are approaching e-commerce apps. Mobile commerce, or m-Commerce, is a rapidly growing new avenue of e-Commerce that’s mostly driven by the expanding market and influence of smartphones and millennials’ comfort with shopping online. In 2018, the m-Commerce sector enjoyed a 39.1% increase in sales compared to the previous year. Top Advertising agencies make used for representation purposes only. What Are The Various E-Commerce Laws And Regulations? Information Technology Act, 2000 Information Technology Act, 2000 was the first enacted law by the government of India on e-commerc

Putting an end to an over seven-year-long legal dispute between ITC's Sun feast Yippee! and Nestle India's Maggi noodles, the Madras High Court has ruled that to promote their noodles brands neither of them can claim a monopoly over the words 'Magic Masala' and 'Magical Masala' to describe their products. ITC that began the legal battle back in 2013, after Nestle began using 'Maggi Xtra-delicious Magical Masala' to market its noodles framed charges against Nestle. Both the companies cannot claim the monopoly over the laudatory words 'Magic' and 'Magical'. “Justice C. Saravanan said they are general English and Indian words and both the companies cannot claim the control over them as these words are laudatory and common to the trade, nobody can claim an exclusive right over their use. Therefore, it is incompetent of being monopolized by any trader. He also added that inroads made by ITC in the instant noodles segment with use of the expr

A lot has been written over the years about the Indian media’s problematic coverage of such news. But the recent death of the actor Sushant Singh Rajput – and the media spectacle that followed – has pushed these issues back into the spotlight. Some publications, like Gujarat Samachar, went a step further and even published images of Rajput’s body. This is exactly what happened when actress Jiah Khan died by suicide in 2013; photos of her body were splattered across the internet, and India Times went ahead and published them. This, and the images are shown, are in violation of the World Health Organisation’s guidelines on suicide reporting, which specifically calls for exercising caution in using photos, and says “explicit permission” must be obtained from family members before using visual images. The images also go against the Press Council of India’s guidelines stating: “All subjects should be treated with respect and dignity. Special consideration is given to vulnerable subjects and

Hours after yoga guru Baba Ramdev unveiled an Ayurvedic medicine — ‘Coronil and Swasari’ — on Tuesday, claiming that clinical trials on COVID-19 affected patients had shown favourable results, the Central government asked Patanjali Ayurved Limited to stop advertising the drug and sought details on its claimed “successful trial and cure”. In a statement issued by the Ministry of Ayush on the claims made by Haridwar (Uttrakhand)-based Patanjali Ayurved in treating COVID-19, the Ministry noted that it had taken cognisance of the news being recently flashed on its drug by the company. Facts of the claim related to the drug and details of the stated scientific study are not known to the Ministry, the statement said. Patanjali Ayurved has been asked to provide, at the earliest, details of the name and composition of the medicines being claimed as successful in COVID-19 treatment; site(s)/ hospital(s) where the research study was conducted; the protocol, sample size, Institutional Ethics Comm

  INTRODUCTION: As the people of India learn to live with the Covid-19 and prepare themselves for the same, the Centre unveiled new guidelines as UNLOCK1.0 after a two-month-long lockdown. Before this period country saw many changes, the majority of which was the traumatic displacement of the weaker sections, while the spread of the virus was modest. Many restrictions were unveiled very carefully considering they will be in a staggered manner in the containment zones. According to the centre, the generic measures are observed by all the staffs, workers and patrons at all times. One of the major advantages that have been served to people is the inter-state and inter-district movement across the States without the passes. The permission for this inter-state movement has been a big relief to the people but it also came with the restrictions such as the self-monitoring of the health by the use of masks, sanitizers, self-isolation and also by the officials that have been employed to

The last few weeks have been difficult for Oppo in India. The company has been trying to regain its lost ground, in manufacturing, at its Greater Noida facility after nine employees tested positive for coronavirus. The same facility also manufactures OnePlus phones, which is why OnePlus 8 Pro and OnePlus 8 have seen such staggering supplies. But, things have been improving gradually, despite all the challenges. One can assume business had started as usual, because Oppo had a big-ticket launch event coming. For a company of the scale of Oppo, it was the sort of event that would show off its might and magic, and how quickly it could bounce back from a calamity. Only, things turned from bad to worse, ahead of D-day. Oppo was supposed to launch its high-end premium Find X2 series in India on Wednesday. Saying that the hype around the Oppo Find X2 series was huge would be an understatement. Not that the Find X2 series needed that sort of hype (Find X2 Pro and Find X2 are very capable ph

Psychologists approach the job of explaining negligent and criminal behaviour by focusing on one’s personality. They particularly examine the processes by which various behaviours and their respective restraints can be learned. These processes are often conceived as the interaction of biological tendencies and social happenings. One of the commonly supported theories is The Deterrent Theory, formulated by two philosophers - Cesare Beccaria and Jeremy Bentham. Deterrence theory is a belief that the threat of punishment can and will prevent people from committing a crime.  This theory is based on the assumption that individuals have free will and are rational in their thinking, which will create fear of the punishment that follows when one commits a crime. Two cases were identified; in the first case, an individual learns through the process of associative learning which means they link a certain behaviour pattern with a painful stimulus. In the second case, an individual learns

As the people of India are learning to live with the Covid-19 and prepare themselves for the same, the country is experiencing many changes, the majority of which was the traumatic displacement of the weaker sections as well as the surge in the domestic violence cases. The novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) lockdown is helping keep the virus at bay, but at a cost — several women are locked in with their abusers with no outlet for help.  The National Commission for Women, which aims to help the women who suffer from domestic violence, recorded a more than twofold rise in gender-based violence during the initial lockdown period.  As this lockdown caused the world to come at a standstill, it caused the rates of domestic violence to rise at an enormous rate. We also know that during times of economic hardship, there is an increase in violent, abusive, impulsive, compulsive, and controlling behaviour and aggression directed towards cohabiting partners. According to the National Commis

The nationwide COVID-19 tally neared the 3-lakh mark on Friday, with a record number of over 10,000 new cases getting detected across states and union territories. The government stressed on the need for stringent containment measures to check the pandemic, with the last one lakh cases emerging in just ten days. The Centre has asked states and UTs to pay special attention to emerging epicentres of cases and to focus on containment, testing and tracing, upgrading health infrastructure, clinical management and community engagement for effective management of COVID-19, the Union Health Ministry said. Sources said Prime Minister Narendra Modi may hold a fresh round of consultation with Chief Ministers next week in the backdrop of the rising number of cases in the country. While the first case of the novel coronavirus infection was detected in India on January 30, it took more than 100 days to reach the one-lakh mark on May 18, but the 2-lakh mark was breached only about a fortnight

Atmanirbharta or self-reliance is the new catchphrase for the Indian economy. It sounds new but is actually the earliest initiative of economic policymakers after this country attained independence. It flowed from the motto of swadeshi and boycott of colonial foreign goods that was an integral part of the freedom movement. The general public thus had no problem in accepting the ideas of self- reliance and import substitution advocated by Jawaharlal Nehru and his advisors as a critical element of economic policy. It gelled well with the theme of independence, not just from the colonial masters, but from imperialistic powers everywhere. In practice, of course, import substitution became one more element of red tape under the licence raj system that evolved under Nehru and his successors. It is with a sense of trepidation that one views the latest clarion call to achieve the goal of atmanirbharta. The last stimulus package was even described as the Atmanirbhar Bharat Abhiyaan. These