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The Interplay of Personality Rights and Freedom of Expression- the Jackie Shroff’s Case’

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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.

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IP Issues in The World of Japanese Sequential Art – Manga

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Image Sources: Shutterstock] ‘Donjishi’ is another form of copyright infringement of a manga creator. Donjinshiisa self-published fan bookthatuses the existing manga characters violating the personality rights of the characters as was established in the famous caseof V.T. 19, 2011, 2009 (A) No. Napster, Inc.,

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Right of Publicity Part 2

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Radha Pocket Books,the plaintiff filed a copyright infringement case against the defendant for publishing a comic book character named ‘Nagesh’. In another case of Indian Performing Rights Society v. 2662/2011 Douglas v. InRaja Pocket Books v. RFMLR (2018) 1 Titan Industries Limited v. Ramkumar Jewellers, CS (OS) No.

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