IP and Legal Filings

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

ABSTRACT There has been a dramatic increase in the commercial use of celebrity personalities by people not authorized to do so compared to the earlier times. Protecting personality rights has become a growing problem in India due to deepfakes, morphed pictures, etc. Interesting right? Puttaswamy v.

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Personality Rights Privacy Social Media Copyright 73

SpicyIP

NOVEMBER 19, 2023

Here are our summaries of the blog posts published last week along with the summaries of some interesting orders from different courts. A Division Bench of the Delhi High Court to hear appeal against the Single Judge order in the Sushant Singh Rajput personality rights case. Anything we are missing out on?

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Intellectual Property Journalism Patent Application Social Media 59

Traverse Legal Blog

OCTOBER 24, 2024

International Variations: Similar rights exist in other countries, often referred to as “personality rights” or “rights of persona.” ” Your Right of Publicity, Name and Likeness A claim for violation of Right of Publicity can be either statutory or common law and varies state by state.

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Social Media Copyright Infringement Copyright Law 98

SpicyIP

JANUARY 2, 2022

The Supreme Court looked into a wide variety of issues such as oxygen and Covid-19 drugs shortage, equitable pricing of vaccines, protection of health workers, possibility of invoking compulsory licenses and the clampdown on free speech on social media platforms. Revocation of Pepsico’s PVP certificate by the PPV & FR Authority.

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SpicyIP

DECEMBER 30, 2023

[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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IPilogue

DECEMBER 9, 2021

As part of the course requirements, students were asked to write a blog on a topic of their choice. This may become tricky in the context of social media, as memes only become popular by copying and reposting. It’s no secret that memes have taken the internet by storm. Is Infringement Even Possible Then? According to s.3(1)

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Copyright Artistic Work Copying Intellectual Property 89

Canadian Intellectual Property Blog

JUNE 10, 2020

We live in the digital age of smartphones and social media, where the large scale capturing and sharing of photographs has become a global run-of-the-mill form of communication and expression. The rights in these photographs are typically subject to the licensing schemes of the various social media platforms to which they are posted.

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