IP and Legal Filings

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

In an effort to fool people and profit from the use of celebrities’ names and pictures, deepfakes portraying fictional events that never occurred have been utilised against popular personalities. This has increased in celebrities moving to court to get rights over their persona.

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SpicyIP

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Interestingly, before Bachchan’s issue, Suchita elaborated on the status of personality rights in India against the backdrop of claims of the wife of the late Steve Irwin. In 2014, the Bombay High Court restrained the singer Mika Singh and the recording label OCP Music from publishing an advertisement that impinged Sonu’s personality rights.

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JIPL Online

APRIL 9, 2021

Memes utilize pop culture content, such as movies, television shows, and other various forms of media, often in a parodic way. Such uses are often methods of social commentary regarding the user’s own life, or more broadly, current events; they also often utilize copyrightable material. [i] Zywicki & Thomas J. vii] Deidrè A.

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SpicyIP

DECEMBER 30, 2023

However, in case such a use does amount to an infringement, the Court clarified that Google, the concerned platform here, will be held accountable and will not be able to claim protection as an intermediary under Section 79 of the IT Act since it effectively sells these marks to the advertisers. Makemytrip (India) Pvt.

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