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AUGUST 4, 2024

Tejas Misra explains why and how these seemingly innocuous posts may infringe on the shooter’s personality rights. The plaintiff sent legal notices to the defendant but received no reply and thus filed the present suit and sought ad interim reliefs. Primestack Pte.

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SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Look no further as we present to you the SpicyIP Weekly Review, highlighting the discussions that took place on the blog along with other IP news. Ltd vs Poi Social Media Pvt. Wondering what IP developments took place last week? Lokesh discusses the case in this short tidbit post. Humans Of Bombay Stories Pvt. on 15 September.

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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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AUGUST 12, 2024

PART I] Synthetic Singers and Voice Theft: BomHC protects Arijit Singh’s Personality Rights In a first of its kind order in India, the BHC restrains AI platforms from using likeness of famous singer Arijit Singh, finding them to prima facie infringe his personality rights. Read on below to know more.

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MAY 20, 2024

Raising some concerns with this finding, we are pleased to present to you this guest post by Dhruv Vatsyayan. Reckitt & Colman (Overseas) Hygiene vs Bhateshra Bechara Hirabhai on 13 May, 2024 (Delhi High Court) The plaintiffs filed the present suit against the defendant’s use of the marks ‘Airwick’ and “Airwoc’. Warner Bros.

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JANUARY 2, 2022

The present case clarified that there is a distinction between cases directly arising from IPR issues and those arising from indirectly connected matters. The petitioner contented that Jayalalithaa’s personality rights and her family’s privacy rights should be protected and that the productions may be incorrect and misleading.

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DECEMBER 30, 2023

[Delhi High Court] On September 20, the Delhi High Court granted relief to film actor Anil Kapoor against the unauthorised use of his image, name, voice, and other traits of his persona for monetary gain, reinforcing his personality rights. Sarl a A Sarogi , where the Court affirmed the position on descendability of publicity rights.

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