IP and Legal Filings
JUNE 29, 2024
However, this article will discuss the reasoning of the court with respect to relief claimed by the Plaintiff against a creator of a YouTube video who compiled the interviews of the plaintiff and depicted his personality as ‘thug life’ The plaintiff contended that such videos portrayed him in a derogatory manner. million views.
The IPKat
SEPTEMBER 27, 2023
The IPKat has received and is pleased to host the following contribution by Danish Katfriends Jakob Plesner Mathiasen and Thit Nymand Nisbeth (both Gorrissen Federspiel) on the interplay between AI, deepfakes, and personality rights in the form of image/publicity rights. However, there is no federal law regarding the matter.
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SpicyIP
AUGUST 26, 2024
However, its specific emphasis on protecting certain elements of the whole scheme of copyrighted content, such as fictional characters and the distinctive personas they embody, has been a focal point, contributing substantially to the discourse surrounding the ever-expanding ambit of copyrightability as well as personality rights.
SpicyIP
JULY 27, 2023
Factual Background The case at hand involved the plaintiff seeking an interim injunction against the defendants to restrain them from using the name/likeness of the late actor unauthorizedly through the release of the impugned film amounting to infiltration of personality rights, violation of free trial, passing off et al.
SpicyIP
JULY 9, 2021
The jurisprudence concerning publicity rights for living individuals has been previously examined here , here and here. Let’s see what the various case laws pertaining to the posthumous survival of celebrity rights have held. In 2010, in Kirtibhai Raval v. Can publicity rights survive after a celebrity’s death?
SpicyIP
DECEMBER 20, 2023
From Big-B Baritone to Anil Kapoor’s Jhakaas, the life of Personality rights : Since Shouvik’s 2010 post about Amitabh Bachhan’s concern over the use of his voice to sell Gutka (an addictive substance), we have come to a long way! Sounds “Jhakaas!” see also Sourav Ganguly vs Tata Tea ).
SpicyIP
DECEMBER 30, 2023
[Delhi High Court] On September 20, the Delhi High Court granted relief to film actor Anil Kapoor against the unauthorised use of his image, name, voice, and other traits of his persona for monetary gain, reinforcing his personality rights. Sarl a A Sarogi , where the Court affirmed the position on descendability of publicity rights.
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