Create, Copy, Disrupt: India's Intellectual Property Dilemmas

Student-lead protests after academic publishers sued a photocopy shop in the University of Delhi; judicial websites hacked in disapproval of court-imposed bans on access to file-sharing websites; resellers lobbying for parallel imports; Bollywood producers threatening strikes to oppose mandatory royalty sharing with composers; and zellies by patient groups during the Glivec case are some of the recent examples where the intellectual property debate has spilled onto the streets. IP is slowly becoming an inflexion point in public conversations; views remain polarized; and India remains in search of conclusions for many aspects of IP protection in this day and age, but exciting times lie ahead.