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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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Publicity Rights: An analysis of Amitabh Bachchan V. Rajat Nagi & Ors.

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Due to the extent of unlawful activity associated with the petitioner’s name and personality, the court granted a restraining order on 25 th November 2022 against various people and companies. What are Publicity Rights? For instance, in Titan Industries Ltd.

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SpicyIP Weekly Review (May 13- May 19) 

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The Court ruled that the defendants have tried to slavishly copy the plaintiffs’ trademark by adopting a visually, structurally and phonetically similar trademark. It’s alleged that the defendant’s deceptively similar mark is also used in its websites for their products which have attracted negative reviews and comments.

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A Look Back at India’s Top IP Developments of 2023

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[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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