Hollywood, Bollywood groups lobby Indian panel to protect content from AI modelsHollywood and Bollywood groups are urging an Indian panel to strengthen copyright laws, preventing AI firms from using their intellectual p...
08 Oct, 2025, 02.59 PM IST
DPIIT's withdrawal of a copyright rule order to strengthen rights owners' position: ExpertsLast week, the Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade (DPIIT) withdrew an office memorandum from September 2016 that exten...
26 Aug, 2024, 11.39 AM IST
Subscription fees separate from royalty for tax purposes: Tax rulingA US based research company was charging subscriptions for accessing its database and online journals to customers in India. The company wa...
13 Dec, 2021, 04.19 PM IST
MNCs, Indian tech companies spar over copyright tax“Indian companies that use imported software still want to continue withholding the tax at 10% but the latter claims that following the SC ...
08 Aug, 2021, 07.56 AM IST
Multinationals and Indian companies spar over tax on copyright following Supreme Court rulingThe question is whether Indian companies that use, sell, or market software — directly or installed in cell phones, computers etc— should d...
04 Aug, 2021, 09.59 AM IST
IT Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad says Twitter denied him access to his account for an hourTwitter cites US copyright law violation; House panel will seek an explanation from the social media platform, says Tharoor
26 Jun, 2021, 09.29 AM IST
Parliamentary panel to seek Twitter's explanation on locking accounts: Shashi TharoorShashi Tharoor on Friday said the standing committee will be seeking an explanation from the social media firm
25 Jun, 2021, 09.42 PM IST
Govt notifies Copyright (Amendment) Rules, 2021The compliance requirements for registration of software works have been reduced and the applicant can file the first 10 and last 10 pages ...
08 Apr, 2021, 06.51 PM IST
Government may tweak tax law on software purchases from foreign firmsThe government may be exploring options to tweak the domestic tax law to overcome a recent Supreme Court judgement that said payments made ...
25 Mar, 2021, 07.47 AM IST
Software royalty case: How SC upheld the primacy of tax treaties over domestic tax lawRejecting the revenue’s plea that persons required to deduct tax at source do not fall within the subject matter of tax treaties, it held t...
14 Mar, 2021, 11.46 PM IST
Live feed from foreign jurisdiction and money earned from that isn’t royalty: Tax rulingThe tax department on the other hand said that the entire income was taxable in India as per the India-Singapore tax treaty. The tax depart...
19 Dec, 2020, 03.18 PM IST
Income from distribution rights is not royalty: ITATAs per the details of the case a US based company had provided exclusive distribution rights to an Indian company. The Indian company could...
09 Dec, 2020, 05.00 PM IST
Govt to consider proposal to allow multiple copyright bodies for music, filmsSeniors officials in the commerce and I&B ministries told ET that the move is being discussed to benefit regional players, break the monopo...
09 Nov, 2020, 11.59 PM IST
Copyright amendment rules will widen framework, bring transparency: GovtGovt proposes to introduce amendments to change the copyright framework in the light of technological advancement in digital era.
05 Jun, 2019, 11.48 PM IST
Govt seeks to amend copyright act to improve access to contentCurrently, the Act covers only radio, and TV broadcast firms who are allowed to take permission from the owners.
04 Jun, 2019, 09.52 AM IST
India’s digital library plans to collaborate with foreign peersThrough collaborations, NDLI is looking at strengthening its own content, technology and business model.
19 Mar, 2018, 11.21 PM IST
- Payment for copyrighted goods not royalty: ITAT
The income tax department had asked Israel -based TII Team Telecom International to pay tax on software it sold to the Indian company.
29 Aug, 2011, 04.41 AM IST