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Sunday 31 May 2009

International Conference on the Future of Copyright-Bollywood represented

German Ministry of Justice, recently organised the International Conference on the Future of Copyright in Berlin where along side some of the stalwarts of the IP world such as Prof. Reto Hilty, Director of Max Planck Institute Munich, Dr. Francis Gurry, Director General at WIPO, Shira Perlmutter, Executive Vice President of IFPI, Mr. Supran Sen, Secretary General of Film Federation of India and also of Producer's Guild, attended the conference as a guest speaker representing the Indian Film fraternity wherein he presented a paper on the Future of Copyright in the Indian film Industry. The paper highlighted the existing provisions in the Indian Copyright law for films and also the various steps taken by the film industry towards stringent copyright enforcement. The paper also highlights the various proposed legislative measures by Copyright Office in direction of Technological protection measures and Digital Rights Management as a tool to protect copyright content along the lines of similar measures in World Copyright Treaty and WPPT.

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