IP and Legal Filings

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

[iii] Provisions in Indians Laws Trademarks Act, 1999 does not make any exact provision for publicity rights, but its definition of ‘Marks’ contains names within its ambit. Going ahead in this fast-forwarding world, publicity rights concerning sports in India will develop and can reach a high of excellent dominance like European countries.

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LexBlog IP

MAY 2, 2022

Personal Branding. What is Right of Publicity? Who is affected by the Right of Publicity? Personal Rights vs. Property Rights. The implications of the Right of Publicity. This right is often exploited by businesses who wish to use an individual’s name or image to sell products or services.

Personality Rights 52

Personality Rights Branding Branding Brands 52

SpicyIP

JULY 19, 2021

Pandemic Push: Royalty-Based Business Model for Better Downstream Revenue for Musicians. She emphasises that there exists the possibility of only big artists in the industry being able to cash in on this, as it generally tends to happen with any such new technology or business model. Other Posts.

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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

Selvam & Selvam Blog

MARCH 28, 2022

Professional sports is a multi-billion dollar industry where athletes are beginning to find ways to leverage and add value to their own personal brands. In addition to trademarks, the players are entitled to certain rights which are covered under the arena of ‘publicity rights’.

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SpicyIP

JANUARY 2, 2022

An interim order issued by a single-judge bench of the Delhi High Court recognised the right to be forgotten (RTBF) as a subset of the fundamental right to privacy. Previously , the right had been discussed in the context of individual’s names appearing in judgments. Novex Communications Pvt Ltd v.

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The IPKat

AUGUST 9, 2021

On the one hand, there are privacy and data protection concerns, as this is a particularly intrusive form of data processing. As a next step, the SPC Provisions enumerate certain activities that infringe the personality rights and interests of natural persons. These are only allowed when there is a clear legal basis.

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Biswajit Sarkar Copyright Blog

JANUARY 22, 2024

This unauthorized usage may also give rise to breaches of confidence or violations of privacy. While economic interests can be quantified and compensated monetarily, non-economic concerns such as privacy violations, damage to reputation, and mental distress may not be entirely redressed through financial means.

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SpicyIP

MAY 3, 2023

are typically objected to on the grounds of personality rights (publicity rights, celebrity rights, by other names), privacy and (to a limited extent) defamation. In the Amarnath Sehgal Case , the Court also stated that the mural, the work in question, is a “modern national treasure of India”.

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IP and Legal Filings

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Right To Publicity- A Constitutional Right The right of publicity stems from the right of privacy. But right to privacy only came to be recognised as a fundamental right in the year 2017 in the case of Justice K.S. Publicity Rights and the Right to Privacy in India, 31.1

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