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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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Fonts & Typefaces: Are they Copyrightable? 

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But as I will discuss in this post, they fulfill the eligibility criteria as provided under the Copyright Act, 1957. Typeface’ refers to the particular design of letters, numbers, marks and symbols. What we colloquially refer to as ‘font’ is actually the typeface as font changes with the size, italic, bold, and style.

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Voice Cloning In the Digital Age: Navigating the Legal Maze of Ai

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The artist further emphasized that he had paid for all required payment for the singers’ voice algorithms and had acquired all the required permissions from their family members. The same is a perfect illustration of how artistic works and technology might coexist in the next few years. According to R.G. Anand v.

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IP Issues in The World of Japanese Sequential Art – Manga

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Image Sources: Shutterstock] ‘Donjishi’ is another form of copyright infringement of a manga creator. Donjinshiisa self-published fan bookthatuses the existing manga characters violating the personality rights of the characters as was established in the famous caseof V.T.

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