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Analysis Of Domain Name Disputes In India

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Image Sources : Shutterstock] Legal rights in domain names can be derived from these sources: registration of the name as a trademark ; prolonged use of the name for trading; or the biological name of a person. 3] AIR 2004 SC 3540. [4] 1] (1999) 78 DLT 285. [2] 2] 1996 PTC(16) 142. [3] 4] (2011) 181 DLT 716.

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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.