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No Injunction on the Film ‘Nyay: The Justice’: Is It Really Just?

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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 plaintiffs’ claim which demanded recognition of post mortem rights thereby did not find favour with the court.

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A Look Back at India’s Top IP Developments of 2021

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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. Top 10 Judgments/Orders [Jurisprudence/Legal Lucidity]. Hero Electric Vehicles Private Ltd v.

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Never Too Late: If you missed the IPKat last week!

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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.

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Part I: The Right to Publicity: 31 Years Since Madow’s Scathing Verdict, Yet…….The Show Must Go On?

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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.

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