{"id":875,"date":"2016-10-25T09:51:07","date_gmt":"2016-10-25T04:21:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/old.anandandanand.com\/oldupdates\/?p=875"},"modified":"2016-11-04T10:19:28","modified_gmt":"2016-11-04T04:49:28","slug":"875-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/old.anandandanand.com\/oldupdates\/the-late-night-story-behind-john-doe\/","title":{"rendered":"The Late Night Story Behind &#8216;John Doe&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Excerpts from Shamnad Basheer&#8217;s piece, &#8216;The Pure Joy (Anand) of Creativity: The Story of India&#8217;s First &#8220;John Doe&#8221;&#8216;, on SpicyIP.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #003366;\">As I yawningly churned out yet another standard suit late into the night, my then boss, Pravin Anand, arguably one of the finest IP lawyers called to ask: \u201cHow many defendants have we arraigned?\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #003366;\">\u201cThree\u201d, I said. \u201cWe\u2019ve received tip offs for only three cable operators, and I\u2019ve got all of them in.\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #003366;\">\u201cBut what of the others?\u201d, he asked.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #003366;\">\u201cWhat of the others?\u201d, I shot back angrily, rubbing my eyelids hard to stay awake. \u201cThese are the only ones our investigators came up with\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #003366;\">\u201cBut there will be others\u201d, he said. As he sensed my gnawing sense of impatience and irritability, he said: \u201cBete (son).. Come home. Let\u2019s discuss.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #003366;\">Later, donning his professorial robes, he patiently explained:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #003366;\">\u201cThis is the world cup after all. Every cable operator will want to screen these matches. Very few of them have taken licenses, is that not so?\u201d. I mumbled a faint \u201cyes\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #003366;\">\u201cAll the others clearly want a free ride\u201d, he continued. \u201cBut we can\u2019t keep tracking each one and taking them to court one by one. The world cup would have long gone by then! We need a clever strategy. And one before we get to the semis and finals, when there is maximum viewership!\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #003366;\">\u201cSo what do we do?\u201d, I asked, now all wide eyed and curious.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/spicyip.com\/2016\/10\/the-pure-joy-anand-of-creativity-the-story-of-indias-first-john-doe.html\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Excerpts from Shamnad Basheer&#8217;s piece, &#8216;The Pure Joy (Anand) of Creativity: The Story of India&#8217;s First &#8220;John Doe&#8221;&#8216;, on SpicyIP. As I yawningly churned out yet another standard suit late into the night, my then boss, Pravin Anand, arguably one of the finest IP lawyers called to ask: \u201cHow many defendants have we arraigned?\u201d. \u201cThree\u201d, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":876,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[49,44],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/old.anandandanand.com\/oldupdates\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/spicy.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.anandandanand.com\/oldupdates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/875"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.anandandanand.com\/oldupdates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.anandandanand.com\/oldupdates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.anandandanand.com\/oldupdates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.anandandanand.com\/oldupdates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=875"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/old.anandandanand.com\/oldupdates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/875\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":881,"href":"https:\/\/old.anandandanand.com\/oldupdates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/875\/revisions\/881"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.anandandanand.com\/oldupdates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/876"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.anandandanand.com\/oldupdates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.anandandanand.com\/oldupdates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.anandandanand.com\/oldupdates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}