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Kettle objects to the pot calling the pan black

The legal battle between Humans of Bombay and People of India has exposed questions of originality, ethics, and commercialisation in the world of digital storytelling

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Sandeep Goyal
So the pot called the pan black, unaware that the kettle would wake up and call the pot black! It is kind of funny what happened all of last week. The Humans of Bombay (HoB), a popular storytelling platform, filed a lawsuit against People of India (PoI), another storytelling platform, alleging that the latter had replicated the “unique” storytelling format of HoB and published identical content, including HoB’s unique intellectual property (IP) such as images and videos. The Delhi High Court duly took note of the matter. Justice Pratibha Singh, in fact, specifically mentioned that there seemed “substantial imitation”, with
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