World Cyber Security Forum Blogs

  For a long time, India has been called a melting pot of different cultures and traditions, a venerated designation in its character as the largest functioning democracy in the world with the longest written constitution. Indigenous culture, tribal communities their traditions and culture persisting centuries of war and colonization have been part of the country’s long history. However, at the age of growing awareness and expanding cyber market spaces, what protections do these antique and sacred cultures have will require to keep themselves alive raised the biggest question. The Current state of IPR and Traditional knowledge In a current time where development in technology has been occurring at breakneck speeds, mechanisms for the exploitation of such indigenous genetic knowledge, art forms and folklore have also widened their scope, mainly in the areas of Information Technology and bioscience. An example of such exploitations is the results of Biopiracy, which is the practice ...

During social media scrolling, online reading , e-commerce exploration, or random internet surfing, one must have noticed certain advertisements that say “buy a GUCCI bag or Sabyasachi Mukherjee lehenga or Rado watch at giveaway prices”. And once the user clicks the link it is redirected to a third-party vendor website, which is a website not authorized to sell these products. Now the question arises from where they buy such products? The answer is that person has just indulged in online piracy. We are confused as to how clicking an advertisement and buying from the redirected website equates to indulging in piracy. For that, we need to understand what intellectual property (herein referred to as IP) is, basic Intellectual Property Rights (herein referred to as IPR) of fashion designers, and how online piracy works. And further, this blog will be discussing all these aspects in a detailed version . IP is a category of property, including intangible creations, resulting from the appli...

In the current times, with the advent of the cyber wave, an idea is one’s only till he keeps to himself, once disclosed, it suspends itself into the ownership of everybody, and the inceptor can't commandeer himself of it. The idea tends to spread, for the good and shared guidance of man, and improvement of his state, thus appearing to have been particularly and generously planned. Innovations then, at that point despite constraints, in nature are difficult to be a subject of property with their wide-reaching and international phenomenon not being confined to a specific political domain lending to its multi-jurisdictional nature.  Innovation is vital as it has altered the life of every person in the world. Intellectual property laws, therefore, can and should play a role in stimulating innovation. Intellectual property rights limit the public access to make works based upon other work and excessively promotes the overproduction of inventoried works. They also discourage any improvem...