The capital witnessed a splendid gathering of legal stalwarts from across the Indian Media & Entertainment industry at The Lex Witness 5th Annual Media, Advertising & Entertainment Legal Summit 2016. With over 25 speakers and 100 attendees, the summit left back several notes of key strategies and solutions to various legal and regulatory bottle necks the industry stands at. Here’s an overview for you.
Is it really all about India? The recently empowered IPR Policy has raised several questions as to what and how it will fair out to be in favour of the nation. With Startup India, make in India continue as fevers when it comes to a Creative India -Innovative India? The industry mesmerizes over the 2-pronged thought environs that the policy has created. This adds up to the sector’s overall IPR scenario where of course the copyright wars continue with struggle for the much needed regulatory and infrastructural revamps. The session encapsulated it all in a nut shell.
Dominic D Souza, VP – Legal, NXT Digital – Moderator
Akhilesh Kumar Rai, Partner, AZB & Partners
Lavin Hirani, Head-Legal Affairs, Red Chillies Entertainment
Monica Magnusson, VP IPR Policy and Advocacy, Ericsson India
Natasha Fernandes, Head Legal – India, B4U Television
Sidharth Chopra, Partner, Saikrishna & Associates
Zameer Nathani, Director – Legal, Raymond Limited
The Indian M&E Industry has always been well known to be creating debates and deliberations as and when there have been instances of such sorts. No doubt there will always been a sigh of debate between the 2 sides of the M&E coin when it comes to Regulations. However, while the sector is transitioning in terms of finding out means and ways that can create a balance within business interests and regulatory affairs, it is also imperative to understand the importance of ‘being regulated’. The session focused on the maverick rides and the industry appetite towards recent regulatory updates.
Vynsley Fernandes, Director, Castle Media – Moderator
Dominic D Souza, VP – Legal, NXT Digital
Indranil Choudhury, CEO, Lexplosion Solutions
KPS Kohli, Associate Partner, Dhir & Dhir Associates
Pankaj Krishna, Founder, Chrome Data Analytics & Media
Roop Sharma, President, Cable Operators Federation of India
The Indian M&E Industry has several swings in action that are rolling out content in newer formats. However smart and innovative these formats maybe, there seems to be biased or rather an open ended space in which these formats are wild hunting. While on one hand audiences are cheering up to the new era of media coming in, one might need to ponder over the impact on the traditional media and technology sets. The session deliberated upon the legal and regulatory myths that revolve around the new age media formats coming in and the imperative role of technology game changers that big tickets like Cloud Computing bring into the sector.
Vynsley Fernandes, Director, Castle Media – Moderator
Aditi Chopra, Senior Vice President- Legal, Network18 Group
Ashish Chandra, Sr. VP & Group General Counsel – Legal & Tax, Snapdeal.com
Ayan Roy Chowdhury, Head Legal, Sony Pictures Entertainment
Salman Waris, Partner – Head TMT and IP Practice, TechLegis Advocate & Solicitors
It all boils down to finance and moneys. While the Indian M&E sector is poised towards sky scraping turnovers and bottom lines, it is important to see that the financing and taxation related matters are well deliberated upon and keep changing as per the evolution needs of the industry. The session gave an overall finsight on the sector.
Mahendra Lodha, CFO, Bloomsbury India – Moderator
Gautam Vohra, General Counsel & Head of Compliance, Hike Messenger
Ravindra Deshmukh, Managing Director, UPASS
Sunil Agarwal, Partner, AZB & Partners
It is high time that the pirates of the world get a lesson. While one on hand there seems to be a dedicated effort and consciousness towards curbing and beating piracy to death but we are yet to see a world where creativity and innovation have beaten the piracy traps to death. India has to go through a sea of changes and shift its gears towards a more robust and enforcement driven approach when it comes to privacy. The session focussed on all the para spheres of piracy right from probable strategies to curb it and some good steps that have already been taken.
Ayan Roy Chowdhury, Head Legal, Sony Pictures Entertainment – Moderator
Ameet Datta, Partner, Saikrishna & Associates
Ashish Malushte, CFO, UFO Moviez
Siva Gopinatham, Partner, Dhir & Dhir Associates
Zameer Nathani, Director – Legal, Raymond Limited
Summit Concluded with an exciting Lucky Draw, where:
Mr. Omesh Puri, Associate Partner, LexOrbis won a Portronics Sound Pot as a 2nd Runner Up.
Mr. Apurva Mehta, Commercial Attorney, Microsoft India won a Philips Bluetooth Speaker as 1st Runner Up
Ms. Natasha Fernandes, Head Legal – India, B4U Television Network India won a Kindle E Book Basic as a Grand Prize.
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