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Intellectual Property Policy

Meritshot's course content, materials, and brand are protected by law. This policy explains your rights and responsibilities as a student.

10.1 Meritshot's Intellectual Property

All content created and owned by Meritshot Zetta Edutech Private Limited is protected under applicable intellectual property law. This includes, but is not limited to:

  • All recorded class sessions, live training content, and workshops
  • Curricula, course modules, syllabi, and learning roadmaps
  • Proprietary study materials, assignment templates, and case studies
  • Assessments, quizzes, and test question banks
  • Internal processes, methodologies, and frameworks
  • Brand identity including logos, taglines, and design elements

Legal Reference: All original works produced by Meritshot are protected under the Copyright Act, 1957 and applicable trademark law. Unauthorised reproduction may attract civil liability under Section 55 and criminal liability under Section 63 of the Copyright Act.

10.2 Student Obligations

Students are granted a limited, non-transferable, non-commercial, personal licence to access Meritshot's course content solely for their own learning during the program. Students must not:

  • Download, screen-record, or otherwise copy recorded sessions or course content
  • Share access credentials with any third party
  • Reproduce, re-upload, republish, or resell any Meritshot content on any platform
  • Represent Meritshot's proprietary materials as their own work
  • Use Meritshot's content for commercial training, tutoring, or resale

Important: Violation of these obligations may result in immediate termination of program access, revocation of certification, and legal action under the Copyright Act, 1957 and the Information Technology Act, 2000.

10.3 Student-Created Work

Students retain ownership of original work they create independently during the program, subject to the following:

  • Work produced using Meritshot's proprietary datasets, templates, or internal tools may be subject to a shared ownership arrangement
  • Meritshot reserves the right to request removal of any public posting of projects that use the institute's proprietary resources or brand name without prior written consent
  • Students may showcase their independently created capstone projects and assignments in personal portfolios and public repositories, provided no proprietary Meritshot data, internal tools, or confidential information is included

10.4 Data Usage in Projects

Students must ensure all datasets and third-party tools used in their projects are legally acquired and used in compliance with applicable licenses. Prohibited practices include:

  • Using personally identifiable information (PII) of real individuals without explicit consent
  • Scraping websites in violation of their Terms of Service
  • Using licensed data or APIs in violation of those licence terms
  • Using confidential information obtained through internships or employment without authorisation

Legal Reference: Misuse of personal data may attract liability under the Information Technology (Reasonable Security Practices and Procedures and Sensitive Personal Data or Information) Rules, 2011, and the Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023.

10.5 Third-Party IP

Students are responsible for ensuring that any third-party content (libraries, images, APIs, datasets) used in their submissions is appropriately licensed and attributed. Meritshot bears no liability for intellectual property violations committed by students in their projects.