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Advent of AI Voice Generation and Threat to Personality Rights

IP and Legal Filings

There are no separate legal provisions for these rights and they have been included under the existing Intellectual Property laws. The concept of passing off under trademarks law was used to provide relief to the plaintiff. It is a common tort law aspect and can be used for unregistered trademarks.

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Dilution of Fictional Characters: A Remedy to Trademark Infringement

IP and Legal Filings

Introduction In the conventional sense, trademark law requires the mark to essentially be a word or a logo. However, there have been significant advancements in the interpretations of trademark law over the years, with one such advancement being protection of fictional characters under trademark law.

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Can Braille Be Registered As a Trademark?

IP and Legal Filings

19] Being able to distinguish one’s trademark falls at the centre of the trademark law, as otherwise, it is liable to be rejected under Section 9(1) of the Act. Sowmya Krishnan, Registrability of non-traditional trademarks: A critical analysis , 6 IJRAR 914, 916 (2019). 8] West Bengal State Warehousing Corporation v.

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IP Scholarship, Citations, and Knowledge Governance: Some Insights from the History of IP Teaching in India

SpicyIP

And, if I may add a 4th stage, Phase IV (2000–Present) has over 25 NLUs and many large private universities now. While teaching a diverse range of subjects, the initial mission of NLUs seems to have transformed, with many focusing (inadvertently or not) on converting law schools into corporate law job factories!

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Personality Rights – Is it enough to protect us from AI?

Selvam & Selvam Blog

In the author’s personal opinion, Trademark law when implemented and enforced effectively can play a crucial role in the protection of personality rights of celebrities and to target the prevention of deepfakes and unauthorized use of an individual’s identity or likeness by third parties.

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Free Mickey? (Don’t Be Goofy)

LexBlog IP

January 1, 2024, brought numerous hangovers along with an unprecedented amount of media attention to intellectual property law. Trademark law has something to say about use. Rights owners have tried to use trademark law to extend copyrights, albeit with limited success. 3] CA Copyright Act, s.

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Emoji and World of Intellectual Property

IIPRD

Recently, it has provided such uniform unique code numbers to approximately 2000 emoji which may be described as having an outline shape, with black and white colors along with a brief description regarding the same. Trademark Law. Conclusion.