In this Episode, Isheta Boruah hosts Prof (Dr) Unnat P Pandit who is Controller General of Patents, Designs & Trademarks by Govt. of India & Professor at Jawaharlal Nehru University. They discuss the current status of the Intellectual Property Regime in India, status of increasing creations brought to the table for IP registration, awareness of innovators and inventors of their rights and the process of registration. He talks about his views upon the Copyright Act of India in the digital era of Social Media and Content Creators, whether it is advanced enough to safeguard the creators or it needs an amendment. They also discuss whether the current Copyright Act of India is sound enough to protect the ‘artist’ of the Non-Fungible Tokens’ underlying artwork.
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