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    India’s AI Copyright Gamble: DPIIT’s hybrid licensing plan sparks battle over consent and fair pay

    • 11.12.2025
    • Storyboard18

    DPIIT’s proposal for a blanket licence allowing AI firms to train on all legally accessed content promises clarity for developers, but publishers, lawyers and policy experts warn it risks compulsory licensing, unfair payouts and a collapse of existing content economics.

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    What Is CRCAT and How Will It Function Under India’s New AI Copyright Plan?

    • 11.12.2025
    • Medianama

    India’s new copyright working paper proposes setting up a central organisation called the Copyright Royalties Collective for AI Training (CRCAT).

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    Beyond nostalgia: Can TV stars deliver big-screen success?

    • 11.12.2025
    • Mint

    Given the box office volatility, known IPs (intellectual properties) can help lure audiences to cinemas.

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    Paramount’s $102 billion bid to sideline Netflix and buy Warner Bros Discovery — What you should expect

    • 10.12.2025
    • Mint

    In its bid to persuade Warner Bros Discovery shareholders, Paramount Skydance launched a tender offer for current WBD shares at $30 per share, all cash.

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    Ad fatigue is making India’s OTT viewing miserable

    • 10.12.2025
    • Mint

    Users are often bombarded with the same ads over and over again while long and unskippable breaks with frequent glitches turn the viewing experience tedious and disrupt the flow of the show

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    The celebrity YouTube surge: Low costs, high reach, total control

    • 10.12.2025
    • Mint

    Filmmaker Farah Khan is running a YouTube channel dedicated to food while Shilpa Shetty has built a strong
    fitness and wellness brand.

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    Musk’s Starlink lists India internet servic prices, then takes them down taken citing ‘glitch’

    • 10.12.2025
    • Economic Times

    Starlink, this March, partnered with Reliance Industries’ (RIL) telecom unit – Jio Platform Limited (JPL) – to roll out high-speed satellite internet services to customers in India. The same month, it had signed a similar pact with Bharti Airtel

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    As Paramount Bids for Warner Bros, Rivaling Netflix, What Does It Mean for Jio Hotstar?

    • 10.12.2025
    • Medianama

    Paramount Skydance has directly gone with an offer to Warner Bros Discovery’s shareholders in order to gain control of the media and entertainment company ahead of streaming giant Netflix, as per a BBC report.

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    DPIIT Committee Proposes Mandatory AI Licensing Model With Royalties And No Opt-Out For Creators

    • 10.12.2025
    • Medianama 

    India has entered the global copyright and artificial intelligence (AI) debate with the release of a paper titled Working Paper on Generative AI and Copyright Part 1: One Nation One License One Payment, published by a committee formed by the Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade (DPIIT).

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    ‘Fair Dealing’ Fix in Copyright Law Will Not Reduce Legal Exposure of AI Developers: DPIIT Committee

    • 10.12.2025
    • Medianama

    Amid the ongoing debate on whether the “fair dealing” exception on copyright infringement can be applied to the process of training AI models, a government committee has said that amending existing law will not help adequately protect the rights of content creators, nor will it reduce the legal exposure of AI developers.

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