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The development of Artificial Intelligence, from being able to create edited photos to now generating deepfake videos that cannot be distinguished from real videos, has created an imminent threat to intellectual property rights and personalityrights specifically. and includes both commercial and non-commercial aspects.
Here is our recap of last week’s top IP developments including summary of the posts on the repudiations against personalityrights, Govt. Part II: The Right to Publicity: 31 Years Since Madow’s Scathing Verdict, Yet……. Part III: The Right to Publicity: 31 Years Since Madow’s Scathing Verdict, Yet……. The Show Must Go On?
Started in 2018, the 2nd edition of Overlapping IP Rights (OUP) was brought to completion in 2023 by his co-editor, the inimitable Prof Neil Wilkof, along with Prof Irene Calboli who came on as a co-editor following Prof Basheer’s demise. For comparison, the 1st edition consisted of 17 chapters by 24 authors, and ran into 624 pages.
This Kat is pleased to review the “ Overlapping Intellectual Property rights ”, edited by Neil Wilkof [full disclosure: a member of the IPKat team], Shamnad Basheer, and Irene Calboli (OUP, 2023, 864 pp.). The volume is a beautiful testimony to the work of late Shamnad Basheer, who co-edited the first edition.
Considering the same, the Courts have started providing remedies under the scope of personalityrights wherein protection is granted against the unauthorized use of names, images, voice, likeness, dialogues or traits of popular celebrities. To be honest, under the current system, the scope of protection is limited.
Comparing the approaches of the Courts vis a vis personalityrights and the right to livelihood, we are pleased to bring to you this guest post by Aditya Bhargava. Comparing the approaches of the Courts vis a vis personalityrights and the right to livelihood, we are pleased to bring to you this guest post by Aditya Bhargava.
Following on from the success of last year’s inaugural edition of the Shamnad Basheer Essay Competition on IP Law, on May 14 th , 2021 we announced the 2 nd edition of the Shamnad Basheer Essay Competition on the occasion of Shamnad ‘s 45 th birth anniversary. A photograph of Prof. (Dr.) Shamnad Basheer.
The judicial reasonings ignored copyright legal provisions, applying cultural heritage law and taking a long-arm approach to cherry-picked legal norms (such as personalityrights) to give significant leeway to the Italian government and cultural institutions to decide whether and to what extent reproductions of cultural heritage can be used freely.
So, the analogical link to civil personalityrights would like to allow the introduction in the Italian legal system of a tort (extra-contractual liability) under article 2043 of the Civil Code for violation of an absolute right of the “person” State. 106), the instrumental use and reproduction (art.
In such a situation, public disclosure of even true private facts may amount to an invasion of the right of privacy which may sometimes lead to the clash of one persons “right to be let alone” with another personsright to be informed.28.
Book Review Katfriend Maciej Padamczyk (Herchel Smith Doctoral Researcher, Research Associate QMIPRI) reviewed Research Handbook on Intellectual Property Rights and Inclusivity , edited by Cristiana Sappa. It has 24 chapters focusing on the relationship between IP rights and inclusivity.
In Re Anand Expanded Italics the Copyright Board held that: “ A general word which follows a particular word of a similar nature… takes its meaning from them and shall be construed as applying only to things of same general class as those enumerated in Manual on Interpretation of Statutes 12th Edition (Bombay, Tripathi 1969) at pages 297-306.
On top of that, as the case demonstrates, the public domain may receive other threats from an aggressive extension of the scope of personalityrights. More from our authors: Guide to EU and UK Pharmaceutical Regulatory Law, Eighth Edition by Sally Shorthose € 265 15 B.C.). 4] Tribunale Amministrativo Regionale (T.A.R.)
We are thrilled to announce the judges for this edition: Prof. (Dr.) on 15 May, 2024 (Delhi High Court) Image from here The present suit was filed by the plaintiff, a Hindi film actor, alleging infringement of his personalityrights, trademarks, and copyright by different defendants. The Peppy Stores & Ors.
In this month’s edition, he looks into topics including the Plant Variety Registry, different tales of/ takes on personalityrights, and multiple leaks of key documents and their contribution in law-making.
Alleging infringement of his moral rights, misappropriation of his personalityrights, defamation, unfair competition, and passing off, Manchu filed the present suit seeking directions from the Court to take down the content by these Youtubers and John Doe(s).
I will sometimes copyright strike videos, where you can see somebody is just downloading my videos and reuploading them, without even editing them or giving them any new value. If SuprNova didnt exist, you would be talking with a different personright now but the questions would have been the same. Its rare but I do.
Voice Clones and Legal Tones: The Intersection of Artificial Intelligence and Posthumous PersonalityRights Bringing the dead back from their grave? Anything we are missing out on? Drop a comment below to let us know. Md Sabeeh Ahmad shares his review of the book below.
Hussain Dalal , the Delhi High Court held that a dialogue in the movie ‘Yeh Jawaani Hai Deewani’ which incidentally comments on Roohafza has the potential to tarnish the reputation of the Roohafza brand and hence must be edited out before releasing the home video version.
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