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Journal Articles/ Book Chapters/ Reports/ Op-eds/ other publications

Book chapters and journal articles

  • Arul George Scaria and Varsha Jhavar, ‘Striking the Balance: Adapting Indian Copyright Law for GenAI and Beyond’, in Pratyush Nath Upreti (ed), Intellectual Property Debates in South Asia (Hart Publishing, 2025).
  • Arul George Scaria, ‘Learning from Thaler v. Comptroller-General of Patents, Designs and Trade Marks: Short-term and Long-term Implications for India’s Patent Regime’, Bennett Journal of Legal Studies, 2024, Vol. 5, Issue 1, 103.
  • Arul George Scaria, ‘Ensuring Fair Attribution: The Need for Stronger Collective Bargaining Mechanisms’ NUALS Intellectual Property Law Review, Vol. V, Issue 1, 1 (2024).
  • Arul George Scaria et al., ‘A Global South Perspective for Ethical Algorithms and the State’, NATURE Machine Intelligence Vol. 5, 184–186 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1038/s42256-023-00621-9.
  • Arul George Scaria and Varsha Jhavar, ‘Ambush Marketing and Protection of Investments’ in Enrico Bonadio and Patrick R. Goold (eds), The Cambridge Handbook of Investment-Driven IP (Cambridge University Press, 2023).
  • Arul George Scaria, ‘International Exhaustion of Trademark Rights in India’ in Kung-Chung Liu (ed), Annotated Leading Trademark Cases in Major Asian Jurisdictions (Routledge, 2019).
  • Arul George Scaria and Shreyashi Ray, ‘Knowledge Sharing and the Sharing Economy in India’ in Kung-Chung Liu and Uday Racherla (eds), Innovation, Economic Development, and Intellectual Property in India and China (Springer Nature, 2019).
  • Arul George Scaria and Kavya Susan Mammen, ‘Non-Traditional Marks on Pharmaceutical Products: Non-Traditional Barriers to Access to Medicine?’ in Irene Calboli and Martin Senftleben (eds), The Protection of Non-Traditional Trademarks (Oxford University Press, 2018).
  • Arul George Scaria and Mathews George, ‘Copyright and Typefaces’ in Enrico Bonadio and Nicola Lucchi (eds), Non-Conventional Copyright (Edward Elgar, 2018).
  • Arul George Scaria and Rishika Rangarajan, ‘Fine-tuning the Intellectual Property Approaches to Fostering Open Science: Some Insights from India’, WIPO Journal, 2016, Vol. 8, Issue 1, 109.
  • Arul George Scaria, ‘Converging Online and Class-Room Methods: A Promising Mode of Knowledge Sharing in Digital Age?’, Journal of the National Law University Delhi, 2016, Vol. 3, Issue 1, 93.
  • Arul George Scaria, ‘Online Piracy of Indian Movies: Is the Film Industry Firing at the Wrong Target?’, Michigan State Law Review, 2013, Vol. 21, Issue 3, 647.
  • Arul George Scaria, ‘Does India Need Digital Rights Management Provisions or Better Digital Management Strategies?’, Journal of Intellectual Property Rights, 2012, Vol. 17, 463.
  • Arul George Scaria, ‘India Heading Towards a Major Copyright Overhaul’, GRUR Int., 2010, Issue 8-9, 663. 

[Most of my book chapters and articles are available on my SSRN page. If you are unable to find any of them there, please drop me an email and I would be only happy to share it.]

Reports

  • Arul George Scaria et al., The Rise of FOSS in India: Empirical Evidence and Insights from Cross-Sectoral Case Studies (July 2025) https://www.nls.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/FOSS_Report_July-2025.pdf
  • Arul George Scaria, Reading Sec. 52(1)(za) of the Copyright Act 1957 (Report submitted as the Independent Expert appointed by the Delhi High Court in Phonographic Performance Limited v. Lookpart Exhibitions and Events Private Limited) https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4244428
  • Arul George Scaria et al., Open & Inclusive: Reimagining Science in the Global South (a report prepared for UNESCO)
  • Arul George Scaria and Shreyashi Ray, Open Science India Report,  https://bit.ly/OSINDIA
  • Arul George Scaria and Priyanka Choudhary, Evolving an Open Science and Open Innovation Policy Framework for Rajasthan, bit.ly/OSOI-RAJASTHAN
  • Arul George Scaria, Arianna Broggiato and Tom Dedeurwaerdere, Report on the IP Model Agreements for Pre-competitive Access to Microbial Genomic Research Databases (February 2014), Deliverable 8.4 of EU FP7 Project – Micro B3: Marine Microbial Biodiversity, Bioinformatics and Biotechnology.
  • Arul George Scaria, Arianna Broggiato and Tom Dedeurwaerdere, IP Model Agreements for Pre-Competitive Access to Large-Scale Microbial Genomic Research Databases (January 2013), Deliverable 8.2 of EU FP7 Project – Micro B3: Marine Microbial Biodiversity, Bioinformatics and Biotechnology.

Book reviews

  • Arul George Scaria, ‘What Makes an Edited Book of Published Articles an Invaluable Asset?’, Journal of Intellectual Property Law & Practice, 2014, Vol. 9(6), 531.
  • Arul George Scaria, ‘Schweik, Charles M. and Robert C. English (2012). Internet Success: A Study of Open-Source Software Commons. Cambridge (MA): The MIT Press’, International Journal of the Commons (http://www.thecommonsjournal.org/index.php/ijc/issue/view/13).
  • Arul George Scaria, ‘A Scholarly Attempt to Identify Privacy’, Journal of Intellectual Property Law & Practice, 2010, Vol. 5(1), 65.

Others (Op-eds/ blogposts/ podcasts/ case notes)