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Publicity Rights Concerning Sports Athletes

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Publicity rights have attracted considerable recognition in the field of intellectual property rights. Merely put, it is an individual’s right to handle the commercial use of their name, image, individuality and personal brand. iv] The Copyrights Act, 1957. [v]

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SpicyIP Weekly Review (July 12 – 18)

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She highlights that the Court refused to afford post mortem protection to personality rights of the actor. Nishtha emphasises that in determining whether the deceased possessed personality rights enforceable by his heirs, the Court based its reasoning on the intertwining between privacy and publicity rights.