Dr Tharoor at JLF Belfast left me Problematising Indian Personality Rights Jurisprudence
Salam/Namaskar, This post is not from me but from Niharika Salar, a PhD candidate at Queen’s University Belfast, working on questions around identity and geographical indication law in the traditional craft space under the supervision of Professor Giancarlo Frosio and Dr Pratyush Nath Upreti. Niharika, besides being a sagacious scholar with teaching and research experience…
A Curious Copyright Footnote of 1938 Proceedings of the American Society of International Law at Its Annual Meeting
Bonjour, I found something today, not that dazzling or dramatic (like I found before), but perhaps a useful little footnote at the very least. While the postwar shift in U.S. copyright policy—from pirate nation to IP policeman—is hardly news, it is still striking to see it stated so plainly on record by Richard C. De…
A Quick Note on Archival Research at the British Library
Salam/Namaskar, A few months ago, while working at the British Library in the UK for my PhD research, Akshat suggested that I put together a short note, a quick guide, of sorts, on conducting archival research there. I must note at the outset that I remain a novice in this space, learning as I go,…
An Interesting 1965 Piece: International Copyright and the Soviet Union by Allan P. Cramer
Namaskar/Salam So the other day …. I fell, most unwillingly but quite happily, down a rather curious piece (though I confess I only truly read it now, as one does with the more tempting of intellectual distractions! Alas, life is such). It was a piece from 1967 in the Duke Law Journal, a slender sixteen-page…
Interesting Reading: 19th Century’s Conference Culture and Belgium’s Soft Power
(This post continues a series where I share readings that I’ve found useful or, at the very least, intellectually stimulating. See here and here.) Salam/Namaskar The nineteenth century was somewhat a moment for international law. It was marked by a distinctive, I’d say, thought style in which organising international congresses to address perceived “social problems”…
New Paper: Indian Copyright Law in the Age of GenAI: Knowledge/Power, Patchwork, and Peril
Bonjour, Happy New Year! Hope you had a nice beginning of the year! I recently published an article in the Indian Journal of Law and Technology, co-authored with my good friend Luca Schirru. Apart from being a brilliant human being and an exceptionally kind soul (!), Luca is a Post-Doctoral Researcher at the Brazilian Institute…
A very Interesting 1992 piece called “Critical Perspectives on the History and Philosophy of Copyright” by RONALD V. BETTIG
I recently came across a fascinating work on the history and theory of copyright law titled Critical Perspectives on the History and Philosophy of Copyright by Ronald V. Bettig, published in 1992. It references some compelling historical studies related to copyright law and, more broadly, knowledge production. I will be discussing some of these in…
Epistemic Privilege: Handle With Care (Side Effects May Include Overthinking) (?)
This post is co-authored with Aditya Gupta, an enterprising IP scholar and a dear friend! Aditya is studying LLM at the American University Washington College of Law and is a recipient of the Arcadia Fellowship for 2025-26. He completed his law degree from NUSRL, Ranchi, in 2020. Salam Readers, We have recently been working on…
Oh, Time, Whither You?
A few months—or perhaps years—ago, I heard a story of a monk, perhaps in one of Osho’s talks, who had recently returned to my mind, making me wonder once again what time truly is, and how deeply it shapes our legal imagination. So the story goes like that: A Zen monk was working in the…
Mr PATAILLE’s Response to Victor Hugo’s “Domaine public payant” at the 1878 Paris Congress
Salam, In the previous posts, I shared the three speeches delivered by Victor Hugo at the 1878 Paris Conference. (See here: Speech one, two and three) However, there was also a cogent counterpoint to Hugo by Mr Pataille, an author and member of the Société des gens de lettres and its judicial council. As the…
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