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The Interplay of Personality Rights and Freedom of Expression- the Jackie Shroff’s Case’

IP and Legal Filings

The issue of safeguarding personality rights has grown in prominence because of the rising exploitation of various celebrities and renowned individuals. The personality rights in India are generally enforced in the context of Intellectual Property Laws. Ammini Amma and Ors., Baby Gift House & Ors.

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Born to be authors: the copyright of the child

Kluwer Copyright Blog

This question resonates with copyright lawyers as it focuses on the statutory or non- statutory definitions of subject matter, according to both the common law and civil law approaches. What is it? From a European perspective, as the acquis shaped an autonomous concept of a copyright work ( C? What does it do?

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Copyright Protection of Photographs: a Comparative Analysis Between France, Germany and Italy

Kluwer Copyright Blog

This contribution is based on a paper published in 44 European Intellectual Property Law Review 595 (2022). . As is known, originality has always been the essential requirement of copyright law, and only works that show some minimum amount of this attribute usually fall within the scope of protection.

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IT’S THE COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT FOR ME: WHY CLAIMS AGAINST MEME CONTENT SHOULD NOT MATTER

JIPL Online

xxiv] Intellectual property law recognizes a limited monopoly-esque property right for the creator. xxv] Bargaining between rights holders and potential users can be described as a form of bilateral monopoly meaning that the transaction costs of bargaining are extremely high. Zywicki & Thomas J.

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The concept of quotation according to the Italian Supreme Court: yet another example of the failure in the harmonization of EU copyright exceptions

Kluwer Copyright Blog

Schifano’s heirs sued again the Foundation, claiming violation of their economic and moral rights over the works. First, the Corte di Cassazione argued that the quotation exception provision, per definition, allows only partial reproductions of protected works. More from our authors: Law of Raw Data.

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Copyright case law of the German Bundesgerichtshof 2015 – 2019 – Part 1 of 4: Definition of a work, authorship and moral rights

Kluwer Copyright Blog

In order to bring readers up to date on earlier developments, over the next few days we will be republishing in four parts an article (originally published in “Auteurs & Media”) summarising case law from 2015 to 2019 organised by topic. This first part covers the definition of a work, authorship and moral rights.

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Anil Kapoor Vs Simply Life India & Ors: An Unwavering Assurance In Safeguarding Personality Rights Against Ai

IP and Legal Filings

Protecting personality rights has become a growing problem in India due to deepfakes, morphed pictures, etc. In between these problems came Delhi High Court’s judgement in favour of Anil Kapoor wanting to get personality rights. It is challenging to legalise rights to one’s personality or image.