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SpicyIP Weekly Review (November 4-November 10)

SpicyIP

Here is our recap of last week’s top IP developments including summary of the posts on the repudiations against personality rights, Govt. Michael Madow, Akshat Agrawal in this three part post lists out where the justifications for these rights fall flat. This and a lot more in this week’s SpicyIP Weekly Review.

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Book Review: Overlapping Intellectual Property Rights (Second Edition)

The IPKat

The second edition offers revised, or wholly rewritten chapters to the overlaps discussed in the first edition so as to reflect recent developments, as well as to include new chapters (the overlap between privacy and copyright law; privacy and secrecy; trademarks certification marks and collective marks; and IP and traditional knowledge).

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Celebrity Rights: Understanding This Unique Right

IP and Legal Filings

This grants celebrities to capitalize on their brand value and at the same time protect it under the realm of privacy rights. Celebrity rights are in a way paradoxical in nature are they form a combination of publicity, personality and privacy rights.

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Traditional Tattoos on the Red Carpet: Continuing the Conversation of Collective Ownership

IPilogue

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.

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Book Review: Overlapping Intellectual Property Rights 2nd Edition

SpicyIP

The book structure can be divided into four parts, with the first three analysing the overlap of patents, copyright, and trademarks, with other IP rights, respectively. The chapter on Overlap between Patent and Design Protection by David Musker elaborates on this and deals with another pressing question- Whether overlaps matter?

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Safeguarding Personal Names

Biswajit Sarkar Copyright Blog

This unauthorized usage may also give rise to breaches of confidence or violations of privacy. While economic interests can be quantified and compensated monetarily, non-economic concerns such as privacy violations, damage to reputation, and mental distress may not be entirely redressed through financial means.

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Artificial Intelligence and Intellectual Property In India

IP and Legal Filings

AI, a simulation of human intelligence by a computer system designed to perform tasks typically done by human beings, has in just a few short years evolved beyond what was previously believed possible, and has manifested itself in even creating new works of Intellectual Property, such as art, literature, music, etc.