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John Doe Order Issued Against “Taarak Mehta” Infringers: Revisiting the Rights Vested in Fictional Characters

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Simply Life India (2023) (“Anil Kapoor”) (in paragraph 53), wherein the Court, had ruled in favour of safeguarding the distinct personality rights of celebrities, including the rights of endorsement and privacy, against widespread online exploitation and unauthorised commercial use. Baby Gift House & Ors. Rajat Nagi & Ors.

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Celebrity Rights: Understanding This Unique Right

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This grants celebrities to capitalize on their brand value and at the same time protect it under the realm of privacy rights. Celebrity rights are in a way paradoxical in nature are they form a combination of publicity, personality and privacy rights. under the trademark laws.

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Courts Still Have No Clue How to Determine Who Owns Social Media Accounts–JLM v. Gutman

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Gutman created a Pinterest account in 2011 and an Instagram account in 2012, shortly after she began working for JLM. Johnson The Spectacular Failure of Employee Social Media Privacy Laws Do Employers Own LinkedIn Groups Created By Employees?–CDM CH When Does A Parody Twitter Account Constitute Criminal Identity Theft?

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Journey Through “Octobers” on SpicyIP (2005 – Present) 

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Nevertheless, with the increasing impact of copyright and privacy on the flow of information, the path of transparency seems to be becoming more and more turbulent, warranting more attention and closer scrutiny than before. Corruption in IP Offices, Anything New? The person was later convicted in 2016. “Ad-word” Let’s see how it unfolded.

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2021 IP Year in Review

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Our hard-working students and community members published more than twice as many articles than in 2020 and the most articles in a calendar year since 2011. This article summarizes the top developments reported on our blog and in patents, trademarks, and copyright law in 2021. Trademark Law.

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Think Keyword Metatags Are Dead? They Are (Except in Court)–Reflex v. Luxy

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

Defendant has also used Plaintiffs’ trademarks “Seeking Millionaire,” “Seeking Arrangement,” “Whats Your Price,” “Carrot Dating,” and “Seeking” as search terms in the Apple Appstore and Google Play Store to yield LuxyApp as a search result. There’s also a copyright claim for Luxy copying the plaintiff’s TOS/privacy policy.

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Right of Publicity Part 2

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Right To Publicity- A Constitutional Right The right of publicity stems from the right of privacy. But right to privacy only came to be recognised as a fundamental right in the year 2017 in the case of Justice K.S. 2662/2011 Douglas v. Publicity Rights and the Right to Privacy in India, 31.1 Puttaswamy (retd.)

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