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Personality Rights : Through The Glasses Of IPR

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Starting from an Actor promoting tourism advertisements to a cricketer promoting daily life snacks, we live in a celebrity-driven economy. Every day we come across many such influencers and celebrities endorsing products wherein the personality of an individual is traded either by validation or without. PERSONALITY RIGHT.

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Media Laws, Rights & Privacy Of Celebrities

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Licensing It denotes that the film is based on a previously published novel, book, or artistic work. After reviewing similar relevant cases and precedents, the court dismissed the suit, ruling that celebrity rights cannot be granted or recognized without regard for the actual concept of The Right to Privacy.

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SpicyIP Weekly Review (November 13- November 19)

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Other Posts Free Certificate Course in Application of Intellectual Property Rights for Startups and Entrepreneurship [November 22- 23] Free Certificate Course in Application of Intellectual Property Rights for Startups and Entrepreneurship on November 22 and 23. Capital General Store and Jawed Ansari v.

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SpicyIP Weekly Review (December 18- December 24)

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In this month’s edition, he looks into topics including the Plant Variety Registry, different tales of/ takes on personality rights, and multiple leaks of key documents and their contribution in law-making. The court held that puffery in advertisements is allowed as long as the assertions made are reasonable.

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“Main Ladega”-The Fight Between Protection of Intellectual Property and Expressive Content

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Sumedh is a second-year law student enrolled at the National University of Juridical Sciences (NUJS). He is interested in intellectual property, tech law, and policy. Here the courts must look to balance the rights of the trademark holder along with the rights of those creating expressive work that has unauthorized use of trademarks.

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Image Rights Alright—But Can They Trump Established Rights and Doctrines? Should They?

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In a “Jhakaas” (a slang for fantastic) news for the actor Anil Kapoor, Delhi High Court granted the actor an interim injunction against use/ misuse of his personality rights. Bharti is a Professor of Law at the Delhi University, and her previous posts can be accessed here. But, ‘safety’ against what?