Meme And Copyright In India

Priya Singh, Alliance School of Law, Alliance University

Introduction

Whole population of the India is spending their most of the time on the internet using social media every day. The most used platform for communication and sharing one thought. Some of them are Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram. But the new things which more popular in todays century is the internet “MEME” which is defined as an idea, behaviour, style or usage that spreads from one person to another. A meme is a picture or a video or phrase which is made for the fun and which is spread and made viral all over the internet. In legal term it is a derivative work and only the copyright owner has the legal right to create such work.

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