Nandita Saikia

Personality Rights: The Battle for the Self Nandita Saikia | Exploring copyright, content, data, and related legal issues from an Indian perspective...

New post:
Personality rights may be largely the province of the rich but the devastating ease with which they can now be violated, by anyone with the assistance of AI, means that we need more efficient and more easily accessible systems to counter violations.

copyright.lawmatters.in/2025/09/pers...

12.09.2025 14:03 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

A pdf version of my draft on reworking the Indian copyright statute to make it compatible with AI is available here: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

17.05.2025 07:35 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

#NowReading

A Woman of Note by Cram about a woman pianist-composer whose story is partly inspired by that of Clara Schumann.

Reading a bit about how, as a performer, she improved (without authorisation) the pedestrian composition of a man, who then had 'his' work printed without acknowledging her.

14.04.2025 19:42 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

TBH, if it exists, I'd like to see the legal opinion which cleared having GenAI render images in the style of a known, contemporary artist in a well-advertised way.

I wonder what the point was—
To test the limits of copyright protection?
To (re)define the law?

What was the risk assessment?

28.03.2025 08:36 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Found a use for AI that works for me: Pick a random line, ask how different translators have handled it. Wouldn't quote the responses but found the exercise useful to pick a translation I'd enjoy.

(Stephen Mitchell's translations— they make up what they lack in gravitas with their accessibility.)

22.03.2025 14:44 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Reading about her life requires the suspension of belief in the generally accepted laws of time. Despite sometimes being choppy, Chevalier's text draws one in as she talks about how the more things change, the more they remain the same. Not a new story this but one well worth reading.

22.03.2025 04:52 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

+ Chevalier on one woman through everyone else's times.

The woman, who makes glass beads, lives for centuries while the rest of the world speeds by courtesy Chevalier's conceit of time in Venice (and Murano, where she lives) unfolding more slowly than it does elsewhere.

22.03.2025 04:52 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Cover of The Glassmaker by Tracy Chevalier featuring a canal with a bridge over it, gondolas, and buildings on either side.

There's a line which runs from Virginia Woolf to Tracy Chevalier through Michael Cunningham. "A woman's whole life in a single day and, in that day, her whole life," etc. — Woolf focuses on one woman in her own time, Cunningham on three women, each in their own time, +

22.03.2025 04:52 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

The Garden as the World Nandita Saikia | Exploring copyright, content, data, and related legal issues from an Indian perspective...

New Post: The Garden as the World

The garden reflects the world. This post considers the structure of gardens, and attempts to explore, through law and literature, which elements of gardens the law chooses to protect and how those choices are made.

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09.03.2025 09:13 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

The Changing Commons Nandita Saikia | Exploring copyright, content, data, and related legal issues from an Indian perspective...

New post: An exploration of how the commons have been shaped, diminished and developed, over time… bearing in mind that the contours of the commons will determine the legitimacy of the unauthorised use of content as training data for AI

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#copyright #AI #law

18.02.2025 13:36 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0