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MAY 17, 2024

The development of Artificial Intelligence, from being able to create edited photos to now generating deepfake videos that cannot be distinguished from real videos, has created an imminent threat to intellectual property rights and personality rights specifically. and includes both commercial and non-commercial aspects.

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IP and Legal Filings

APRIL 19, 2023

Introduction Personality rights refer to a person’s ability to safeguard his or her identity in the context of a property or privacy right. Celebrities value these rights since their names, images, or even voices may be inappropriately used in commercials by various businesses to increase sales.

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AUGUST 2, 2024

Explaining why and how such seemingly innocuous posts infringe on the shooter’s personality rights, we are pleased to bring to our readers this post by SpicyIP intern Tejas Misra. Image from here Manu Bhaker’s Olympics Victory: Do Brands Violate Publicity Rights by Putting out Congratulatory Posts?

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JANUARY 2, 2022

The plaintiff was granted, through an agreement, an exclusive non-transferable, non-assignable license for selling, supplying, and distributing the defendant’s brands in domestic and international markets. Citing the agreement, the defendant requested the suit to be referred to an arbitration. Sanjay Soya Private Limited v.

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MAY 20, 2024

The Court analysed the jurisprudence of comparative advertisement, ‘overall effect’ test and referred to multiple case laws to conclude that the act of the defendants mislead and disparage plaintiff’s products due to strong association of blue colour with plaintiff’s products within the public. Intergrow Brands Pvt. v Cipla Ltd.,

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JULY 19, 2021

She argues that the law should broaden the definition of serious comparative advertisement (where the owner of the mark advertises his product reference to his competitor’s product based on scientific study) by allowing multiple comparisons. In this guest post , Sangita Sharma analyses the law around comparative advertisements in India.

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DECEMBER 30, 2023

[Delhi High Court] On May 23, the Delhi High Court passed an interesting jud gement on the issue of ownership of the copyright in a film screenplay and held that the copyright in the screenplay of the film ‘Nayak’, lay with Satyajit Ray and on his demise, with his son Sandip Ray and the Society for Preservation of Satyajit Ray Archives (SPSRA).

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