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Media Laws, Rights & Privacy Of Celebrities

IP and Legal Filings

Celebrities have objected to this because it interferes with their personal lives and their right to privacy. This recorded music is frequently sold at significantly lower prices than market rates, resulting in massive losses for music producers. The Indian Copyright Act of 1957 forbids and punishes acts of piracy.

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Commercializing the Personalities of the Dead: The Dangers of the Posthumous Market

IPilogue

In fact, there exist several legal implications within Intellectual Property law (“IP”), such as the common law principle of personality rights. UneeQ, a New Zealand-based software company, markets “digital humans” for enhanced online customer service. . Such technology is not novel. Firms such as Eterni.me

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A Comprehensive Look at Data Privacy

LexBlog IP

data privacy : what businesses NEED TO know. Keeping pace with the state of data privacy and data privacy regulations is becoming a pressing responsibility for businesses in the digital age. Data privacy legislation is on the rise, with jurisdictions adopting stricter protective measures on a national and global front.

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Learning About the Business of Healthcare and Innovation: My Internship Experience at AstraZeneca Canada

IPilogue

This term, I had the amazing opportunity to work at AstraZeneca Canada through Osgoode’s Intellectual Property Law and Technology Intensive Program placement. I was seated with a digital marketing employee, employees in the clinical research and development team, and an employee in the respiratory team.

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

IP and Legal Filings

However, the twin concepts of privacy and publicity rights are gradually evolving through judicial interpretations. The right to publicity refers to the right to protect, control, and profit from one’s image, name, or likeness, and it is frequently considered as a subset of the right to privacy. In Ar un Jaitley v.

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Grey Market Goods – Coty and Costco Battle it Out in Québec

Canadian Intellectual Property Blog

Grey marketing typically consists of a retailer purchasing genuine branded products abroad for less than offered to them from a local distributor. Grey marketing is generally problematic for international brand owners, who may end up competing against their own products thereby losing control of how the brand is represented to customers.

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Progress or Impediment? Global Privacy Law’s Impact on the Data-Driven Music Industry

LexBlog IP

Evidently, controlling and exploiting personal music data is valuable; however, trends in global privacy law relating to personal data protection and personal privacy rights threaten to reduce widespread accessibility to this resource. The GDPR and the CCPA’s stance on privacy law impacts every aspect of this process.

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