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Advent of AI Voice Generation and Threat to Personality Rights

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The development of Artificial Intelligence, from being able to create edited photos to now generating deepfake videos that cannot be distinguished from real videos, has created an imminent threat to intellectual property rights and personality rights specifically. and includes both commercial and non-commercial aspects.

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Personality Rights In India : A Statutory And Judicial Analysis

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Introduction Personality rights refer to a person’s ability to safeguard his or her identity in the context of a property or privacy right. Celebrities value these rights since their names, images, or even voices may be inappropriately used in commercials by various businesses to increase sales. Puttaswamy v.

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[Guest Post] Book review: Intellectual Property Law in Nigeria: Emerging Trends, Theories And Practice

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Part Two: This part is the core of this work as it lays out in chapters 3-9 many of the emerging issues in IP law such as the protection of plant varieties, traditional knowledge, TCEs, GR and GIs, personality rights, among others. The book analyzed the new Copyright Act 2022 and highlighted the novel provisions therein.

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The puzzled tie of copyright, cultural heritage and public domain in Italian law: is the Vitruvian Man taking on unbalanced proportions?

Kluwer Copyright Blog

In late 2022, the Court of Venice issued an interesting order restraining the use of the image of a well-known piece of Renaissance art by Leonardo da Vinci: the Study of the Proportions of the Human Body in the Manner of Vitruvius , also known as the Vitruvian Man. [1] Leonardo da Vinci, Vitruvian Man (c. 15 B.C.).

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The clash of artistic rights: Warhol, Goldsmith, and the boundaries of copyright in Brazil and in the U.S.

Kluwer Copyright Blog

In this case, the author of the original work retains ownership of the original, while the author of the derivative work holds rights to the creative additions they have made. Lumen Juris, 2022. A film based on a book serves as an example. 1] CAMPOS, Pedro de Abreu M., Direitos Autorais de Acordo com o STJ. CAMPOS, Pedro.

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

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[Delhi High Court] On May 23, the Delhi High Court passed an interesting jud gement on the issue of ownership of the copyright in a film screenplay and held that the copyright in the screenplay of the film ‘Nayak’, lay with Satyajit Ray and on his demise, with his son Sandip Ray and the Society for Preservation of Satyajit Ray Archives (SPSRA).

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SpicyIP Weekly Review (September 25- October 1)

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Highlights of the Week Bayh Dole-esque Guidelines Notified by Dept of Biotechnology Image from here Earlier this month, Dept of Biotech notified the DBT IP Guidelines for ownership and commercialization of IP arising from DBT funded research outcomes. Image Rights Alright—But Can They Trump Established Rights and Doctrines?