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...