Copyright Law Licensing Personality Rights 
Traverse Legal Blog
OCTOBER 24, 2024
International Variations: Similar rights exist in other countries, often referred to as “personality rights” or “rights of persona.” Right of Publicity v First Amendment And, like copyright infringement, Right of Publicity is also subject to First Amendment defenses.
IP and Legal Filings
OCTOBER 11, 2022
Every day we come across many such influencers and celebrities endorsing products wherein the personality of an individual is traded either by validation or without. Living in an era where influential personalities are reverenced, fortifying Personality Rights from any such misuse is a must. PERSONALITY RIGHT.
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The IPKat
APRIL 7, 2025
Background The plaintiff produces clothing and owns the copyright to photographs of such clothing. The German-based defendant used to hold a licensee to these photographs but terminated the license agreement. The judges held that these principles also apply to copyright law because of the territoriality principle.
SpicyIP
FEBRUARY 10, 2024
Whether the government plans to amend the Copyright Act of 1957 to update copyright laws to cover AI-generated content. By imputing a similar logic, not obtaining licenses for uses such as training of GenAI systems by developers could also be considered commercial exploitation and might not qualify as fair dealing.
IPilogue
NOVEMBER 17, 2021
These events point to two prevalent issues within the current legal framework: First, that current intellectual property laws do not properly acknowledge collective ownership over shared culture within Indigenous communities and second, whether tattoo designs have the potential to be protected through copyright laws.
SpicyIP
JULY 29, 2021
This post only deals with copyrightability of fonts from artistic work perspective and does not explore the copyrightability of fonts as code or literary works. Debunking the ‘no copyright for fonts’ Argument. This is perhaps why fonts cannot be copyrighted in the US. Conclusion.
SpicyIP
JANUARY 2, 2022
Such an interpretation allows for a patentee to claim a right to prohibit another party’s export of allegedly infringing goods, thus going beyond what the statute actually offers. This judgment concerned the classification of payments under end-user license agreements (EULA). Engineering Analysis Centre for Excellence Pvt.
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