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Manu Bhaker’s Olympics Victory: Do Brands Violate Publicity Rights by Putting out Congratulatory Posts?

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Explaining why and how such seemingly innocuous posts infringe on the shooter’s personality rights, we are pleased to bring to our readers this post by SpicyIP intern Tejas Misra. Personality Rights: Publicity or Privacy? It can include their face, voice, characteristics and distinctive qualities or attributes.

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Sports and Intellectual Property Law in India

IP and Legal Filings

Intellectual property, inherently, can be sold, licensed or marketed. The screenings once recorded as part of the broadcasting right then become a part of the broadcasters inventory, giving them full right to reproduce, as part of the agreement either on its own terms or by paying a fee to the original franchise owner.

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A Look Back at India’s Top IP Developments of 2021

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Such an interpretation allows for a patentee to claim a right to prohibit another party’s export of allegedly infringing goods, thus going beyond what the statute actually offers. This judgment concerned the classification of payments under end-user license agreements (EULA). Engineering Analysis Centre for Excellence Pvt.

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Comprehending Broadcasting Contracts and Intellectual Property Law at Crossroads

IIPRD

Recent court decisions have clarified the scope of copyright in film screenplays, personality rights, and underlying works concerning content creation and licensing in broadcasting. From DVDs to OTT, the entertainment domain has come a long way owing to rapid digitalization affecting creative authorship over their creations [1].

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A Look Back at India’s Top IP Developments of 2023

SpicyIP

[Delhi High Court] On May 23, the Delhi High Court passed an interesting jud gement on the issue of ownership of the copyright in a film screenplay and held that the copyright in the screenplay of the film ‘Nayak’, lay with Satyajit Ray and on his demise, with his son Sandip Ray and the Society for Preservation of Satyajit Ray Archives (SPSRA).

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Copyright Challenges with Non-Fungible Tokens

Intepat

NFTs are unique digital tokens that represent ownership of specific digital assets. NFTs are embedded with smart contracts—self-executing contracts written in code—that facilitate the transfer and verification of ownership. Hence, the smart contract cannot be used for licensing any copyright related works.

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The clash of artistic rights: Warhol, Goldsmith, and the boundaries of copyright in Brazil and in the U.S.

Kluwer Copyright Blog

In 1984, Condé Nast, the publisher, obtained a license from Goldsmith to allow Andy Warhol to use her Prince portrait as the foundation for a single serigraphy to be featured in Vanity Fair magazine. In 2016, Condé Nast acquired a license from the Warhol Foundation to use the Prince Series as illustrations for a new magazine.