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Who Owns a Song Written by a Machine? Copyright in the Age of AI Music

Tarak Dhurjati Recently I gave prompts of my poem published in the anthology " The Unedited juvenile verses , Part-1, " available on Amazon. I added an interlude "dum dum dum tipu tipu tipu tipu" to make it funny. Hats off to the power of AI, it generated a great song which I have posted above. But it opened up many questions in my mind on the IP landsacpe....

Who Owns a Song Written by a Machine? Copyright in the Age of AI Music Tarak Dhurjati Recently I gave prompts of my poem published in the anthology ” The Unedited juvenile verses , Part-1, ” available on Amazon. I added an interlude “dum dum dum tipu…

Beyond GDP: Why India needs an Innovation-Led Development State

Tarak Dhurjati Mar 29, 2026 For decades, economic strategy—both globally and in India—has revolved around a single number: GDP. Governments track it obsessively, global institutions forecast it with precision, and policy frameworks are built around nudging it upward. The IMF and World Bank project global growth at around 3.3% for 2026, supported by incremental policy adjustments and technological offsets. Yet, despite increasingly sophisticated models, these forecasts repeatedly miss the mark....

Beyond GDP: Why India needs an Innovation-Led Development State Tarak Dhurjati Mar 29, 2026 For decades, economic strategy—both globally and in India—has revolved around a single number: GDP. Governments track it obsessively, global institutions forecast it wit…

Fire from the Sky: Operation Meetinghouse, Atomic Decisions, and the Ethics of Total War

An Essay on War planning for Hiroshima and Nagasaki By the spring of 1945, the United States had learned how to burn a city to the ground. Before Hiroshima and Nagasaki ushered in the nuclear age, Tokyo had already been turned into a furnace. On the night of March 9–10, 1945, under General Curtis LeMay, nearly 300 B-29s roared toward Japan’s capital in an operation codenamed Meetinghouse....

Fire from the Sky: Operation Meetinghouse, Atomic Decisions, and the Ethics of Total War An Essay on War planning for Hiroshima and Nagasaki By the spring of 1945, the United States had learned how to burn a city to the ground. Before Hiroshima and Nagasaki ushered in the nuclear age, …

AI-Powered Patent Intelligence: Scoring Innovation for Real Commercial Value

In today’s innovation economy, patents are often described as the currency of technology. Yet, paradoxically, most patent portfolios remain underutilized, mispriced, and poorly understood. Across corporations, universities, startups, and public research institutions, thousands of patents sit dormant — some incremental, some half-formed, some commercially trivial, and a few potentially transformative. The challenge has never been filing patents. The real challenge is distinguishing which inventions truly matter....

AI-Powered Patent Intelligence: Scoring Innovation for Real Commercial Value In today’s innovation economy, patents are often described as the currency of technology. Yet, paradoxically, most patent portfolios remain underutilized, mispriced, and poorly understood. Across c…

The Coming Cognitive Divide: Will AI Slowly Unmake Human Thought?

Artificial intelligence is rapidly becoming the default interface between humans and the world. We ask it what to read, how to invest, where to travel, how to write, how to code, and increasingly how to decide. What began as a set of productivity tools is evolving into an ambient decision layer — always available, frictionless, and persuasive. That shift brings enormous benefits....

The Coming Cognitive Divide: Will AI Slowly Unmake Human Thought? Artificial intelligence is rapidly becoming the default interface between humans and the world. We ask it what to read, how to invest, where to travel, how to write, how to code, and increasingly h…

AI is transforming Plant Breeding: Accelerating Breeding Cycles and Delivering Climate-Resilient Varieties for the Seed Industry

The global seed industry is operating under unprecedented pressure. Climate volatility, escalating biotic and abiotic stresses, rising R&D costs, and shortening commercial product lifecycles are forcing breeders to deliver superior varieties faster than ever before. Traditional plant breeding—while scientifically robust—was never designed for this pace of change. Artificial Intelligence (AI) is now emerging as a foundational capability that is reshaping plant breeding from an empirical, multi-season process into a predictive, data-driven discipline....

AI is transforming Plant Breeding: Accelerating Breeding Cycles and Delivering Climate-Resilient Varieties for the Seed Industry The global seed industry is operating under unprecedented pressure. Climate volatility, escalating biotic and abiotic stresses, rising R&D costs, and shortening commercial product lifecycles ar…

Hallucination in AI — risks and mitigation for R&D, scientific research, product development and healthcare

AI hallucination is when a generative model outputs plausible-looking but incorrect or fabricated information. In R&D, scientific publishing, product development and healthcare, hallucinations can cause wasted effort, irreproducible science, regulatory non-compliance, clinical harm and reputational/legal exposure. Mitigation requires engineering measures (grounding, retrieval, uncertainty estimation), governance (validation, provenance, human-in-the-loop), and domain-specific controls (regulatory risk assessments, clinical validation, audit trails). Below I explain causes, give examples, and provide a practical mitigation checklist you can apply immediately....

Hallucination in AI — risks and mitigation for R&D, scientific research, product development and healthcare AI hallucination is when a generative model outputs plausible-looking but incorrect or fabricated information. In R&D, scientific publishing, product development and healthcare, hallucinations …

Donald Trump as a Disruptive Statesman: Effectiveness, Intent, and the Making of a New World Order

To assess Donald Trump purely on effectiveness—without ethical adjudication, stylistic judgment, or moral framing—is to encounter an outlier in global leadership. Trump does not operate within the inherited grammar of diplomacy. He rejects euphemism, bypasses ritualized ambiguity, and openly challenges institutions built to preserve equilibrium rather than outcomes. In a world whose governing philosophy is the maintenance of status quo through calibrated language and negotiated delay, Trump represents a rupture....

Donald Trump as a Disruptive Statesman: Effectiveness, Intent, and the Making of a New World Order To assess Donald Trump purely on effectiveness—without ethical adjudication, stylistic judgment, or moral framing—is to encounter an outlier in global leadership. Trump does not operate within the …

SEED ENCAPSULATES THE GENETICS OF A PLANT VARIETY – SEED BILL ,2025

JANUARY 3, 2026 A CRITICAL LOOK AT INDIA’S SEEDS BILL, 2025 Tarak Dhurjati Seeds are not merely inputs. They are compressed packets of genetics, science, history, and power. How a nation regulates seeds ultimately determines who controls agricultural productivity, farmer choice, and food sovereignty. India’s Seeds Bill, 2025, which seeks to replace the Seeds Act of 1966, is an ambitious attempt to modernise seed regulation for a 21st-century agricultural system....

SEED ENCAPSULATES THE GENETICS OF A PLANT VARIETY – SEED BILL ,2025 JANUARY 3, 2026 A CRITICAL LOOK AT INDIA’S SEEDS BILL, 2025 Tarak Dhurjati Seeds are not merely inputs. They are compressed packets of genetics, science, history, and power. How a nation regulates …

Seeds, Sovereignty, and the Future of Indian Agriculture

A Critical Look at India’s Seeds Bill, 2025 Seeds are not merely inputs. They are compressed packets of genetics, science, history, and power. How a nation regulates seeds ultimately determines who controls agricultural productivity, farmer choice, and food sovereignty. India’s Seeds Bill, 2025, which seeks to replace the Seeds Act of 1966, is an ambitious attempt to modernise seed regulation for a 21st-century agricultural system....

Seeds, Sovereignty, and the Future of Indian Agriculture A Critical Look at India’s Seeds Bill, 2025 Seeds are not merely inputs. They are compressed packets of genetics, science, history, and power. How a nation regulates seeds ultimately determines who…

Rewriting crop protection: using insect “behavioral modification” instead of hazardous chemistry

Global success stories and an India policy pathway to scale pheromones and semiochemicals—especially via area-wide mating disruption Across the world’s most competitive horticulture value chains, a clear lesson has emerged: many high-impact insect pests can be controlled without defaulting to broad-spectrum, high-hazard insecticides. The most mature alternative is semiochemical-based pest management—using pheromones and other attractants to modify insect behavior…...

Rewriting crop protection: using insect “behavioral modification” instead of hazardous chemistry Global success stories and an India policy pathway to scale pheromones and semiochemicals—especially via area-wide mating disruption Across the world’s most competitive horticulture value chains, a…