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Book review: Performers' Rights

The IPKat

This is a review of Performer's Rights by the Rt Hon Sir Richard Arnold, Judge of the Court of Appeal of England and Wales. The book covers the rights of performers, particularly the rights conferred under Part II of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 (as amended). The book is presented in 11 chapters.

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Book Review: Overlapping Intellectual Property Rights (Second Edition)

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Now in its second edition, the book offers a perspective on how one can address the overlap between intellectual property (IP) rights, either to reconcile them in whole or in part, or to pre-empt one over the other. The volume is a beautiful testimony to the work of late Shamnad Basheer, who co-edited the first edition.

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Book review: Guidebook to Intellectual Property + discount code

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Kat approved This book is aimed at those who are new to the subject of intellectual property. The preface reiterates that the purpose of the book is to describe the essential nature of living IP law: "What we want is the reader to come away with a good idea of how IP works in practice."

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IPSC Panel 12 – Identity, Data, and Privacy

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Dustin Marlan, The Dystopian Right of Publicity Privacy problems (surveillance) are often analogized to the dystopia of 1984; ROP problems stemming from infinite transferablility can be analogized to Brave New World (1932). Risk of identity loss means that “everyone belongs to everyone else,” as the slogan used in Huxley’s book goes.

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John Doe Order Issued Against “Taarak Mehta” Infringers: Revisiting the Rights Vested in Fictional Characters

SpicyIP

Simply Life India (2023) (“Anil Kapoor”) (in paragraph 53), wherein the Court, had ruled in favour of safeguarding the distinct personality rights of celebrities, including the rights of endorsement and privacy, against widespread online exploitation and unauthorised commercial use. Malayala Manorama (1987), Raja Pocket Books v.

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Synthetic Singers and Voice Theft: BomHC protects Arijit Singh’s Personality Rights [PART II]

SpicyIP

Moreover, both in the EU and the US, privacy laws also come into play alongside intellectual property protections. However, this order is bound to attract attention for rightly emphasising the importance of safeguarding personality rights in the digital age, where AI tools can easily replicate a celebrity’s personal attributes.

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Growth of Virtual Youtubers and IP Complications

IIPRD

The issues pertaining to the rights of VTubers encompass rights to the design of the character, the privacy of the individual, licensing and taking inspiration from an existing character. However, the conversation being considered as a contract between them was unclear regarding the IP rights. 2d 119 (2d Cir.

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