IP and Legal Filings

JANUARY 31, 2024

Right of Privacy may, apart from contract, also arise out of a particular specific relationship which may be commercial, matrimonial, or even political. Disclosure of even true private facts has the tendency to disturb a person’s tranquility. 1998 Mr ‘X’ v.

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Privacy Personality Rights Confidentiality Law 98

IP and Legal Filings

APRIL 8, 2023

CONTRACTUAL ISSUES Various contracts are signed and executed by various performers/artists and stakeholders. The most common example is the IPL, which had its broadcast rights with Sony Network Picture for the first ten years before being acquired by Star India. They include the crew, the cast, and the location.

Privacy 98

Privacy Law Intellectual Property Music 98

The IPKat

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

Through this post you can have a better understanding of reproduction under copyright and related rights , quotation and pastiche , artists’ contracts and internet piracy as well as the Creation Records case. Artificial Intelligence Antonios Baris discussed the decision in Arijit Singh v. Codible Ventures LLP and Ors.

Personality Rights 59

Personality Rights IP Art Copyright 59

IP and Legal Filings

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

Case Study 2- Cristiano Ronaldo (6) In mid-June of 2015, Cristiano Ronaldo sells his image rights to Peter Lim, who is the owner of Mint Media Company and opposing La Liga club Valencia.

Intellectual Property 105

Intellectual Property Privacy Branding Branding 105

The IPKat

AUGUST 9, 2021

Already enacted and practically significant , but legally non-binding is the “Personal Information Security Specification” of 2020, which similarly categorises “facial recognition features” as sensitive personal information and requires explicit, unbundled consent and specific security measures.

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Technology Privacy Law Litigation 128

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.

Personality Rights 92

Personality Rights Privacy Social Media Intellectual Property 92

SpicyIP

JULY 13, 2021

Among the many grounds was the court’s refusal to afford post mortem protection to personality rights of the actor. I shall specifically be dealing with the contention around publicity rights. The nature of his previous contracts and intent to protect personality should be considered. Brief facts.

Privacy 105

Privacy Personality Rights Moral Rights Copyright 105

SpicyIP

JULY 19, 2021

She highlights that the emphasis is on investing only in royalty revenue and not buying the artist’s rights or retaining control over their work. NFTs (Non-fungible tokens), which act as a certificate of ownership for whatever the creator puts up for sale, allow artists to set their preferred terms of contract while making sales.

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Non-Fungible Tokens Advertising Advertising Intellectual Property 105

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. Conflicts on unauthorized biopics (for example, Fred Astaire , Gene Kelly , Sushant Singh Rajput ), unreleased works, endorsements, holographic tributes etc.,

Moral Rights 113

Moral Rights Personality Rights Copyright Privacy 113

The IPKat

OCTOBER 7, 2021

With copyright being in most cases not a public but a private right, it entails private autonomy, allowing - within the limits of dispositive national rights - free contracting over copyright assets and estates. And who determines how the unspoken intent of the deceased artist should be interpreted?

Moral Rights 134

Moral Rights Art Music Copyright 134

SpicyIP

DECEMBER 30, 2023

The Court interpreted the clause on ownership of work made during a contract of service (Section 17(c)) to not apply in situations where there is a contract between equals. The Court limited the scope of Section 17(c) to apply to contracts where the relationship between the parties is akin to that of an apprenticeship.

IP 124

IP Copyright Trademark Intellectual Property 124

SpicyIP

JANUARY 2, 2022

Particularly, it was argued that against the backdrop of the pandemic, the medicines produced were in high demand due to their characteristics of relieving some of the major symptoms exhibited by the patients who had contracted the Covid-19 virus. Recognition of non-human inventors, AI and its implications for India.

IP 143

IP Intellectual Property Trademark Copyright 143

SpicyIP

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

Views expressed here are personal.] Ex Parte Orders on Personality Rights Courts lately have been passing a slew of ex-parte ad interim orders against Generative Artificial Intelligence (‘gen AI’ ) models for training their models using the voices of celebrities, and for producing output that reciprocates the celebrity’s voice.

Privacy 104

Privacy Personality Rights Public Domain Ownership 104

Intepat

OCTOBER 28, 2024

NFTs are embedded with smart contracts—self-executing contracts written in code—that facilitate the transfer and verification of ownership. The defendant claimed that minting was a part of his reserved right to print and publication under the contract. Smart Contracts: Are they enough?

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Non-Fungible Tokens Copyright Contracts Ownership 52

SpicyIP

SEPTEMBER 15, 2024

Voice Clones and Legal Tones: The Intersection of Artificial Intelligence and Posthumous Personality Rights Bringing the dead back from their grave? Md Sabeeh Ahmad shares his review of the book below. Council Of Architecture and Ors.

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Trademark Editing IP Copyright 76

SpicyIP

DECEMBER 31, 2024

T Series And Another vs M/S Dreamline Reality Movies on 22 February [Punjab and Haryana High Court] The case concerned the adaptation of late Jaswinder Kaurs biography into a cinematographic film and deals with interplay of copyright with personality rights.

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