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Deepfakes and Personality Rights: The Need for codifying Personality Rights.

IP and Legal Filings

1] And since, the creator, consumer and subject of the content are distinctly different-the potential lack of empathy or misapprehension by the consumers towards the subject, based on the creators potrayal, necessitate a discussion of the subjects privacy and personality rights.

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No Injunction on the Film ‘Nyay: The Justice’: Is It Really Just?

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However, the absence of a formal codification or determinative theory of post mortem publicity rights in India, depicts that they have not gained the necessary traction and a firm legal foothold as demanded. Secondly, the argument on post mortem publicity was largely based around privacy.

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Madras HC on the Right to be Forgotten: A Welcome Development? (Part II)

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When legislation is enacted, this is unlikely to bode well for either the right to privacy, or judicial transparency. In Justice Kaul’s concurring opinion, he considers that the RTBF can be brought under the umbrella of the right to privacy. The Puttaswamy judgment does not lay down any laws pertaining to the RTBF.

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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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The Copyright Quandary regarding the Delhi High Court Rules on Live-streaming of Court Proceedings

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Supreme Court of India , which dealt with issues of confidentiality, privacy (prior consent) of litigants and witnesses, restrictions on access to proceedings of trials and the preservation of the larger public interest due to the sensitivity of the proceedings. These are based on the principles set forth in Swapnil Tripathi v.

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2023 IP Resolutions Start with a Review of IP Assets

The IP Law Blog

An inventor must secure a patent application within a very short period of time to prevent the work from falling into the public domain. In the US, privacy laws are generally driven by state law, but there may be applicable federal law depending on the nature of the information collected. A special note about customer data.

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

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The decisions in the first category , i.e., Top 10 IP Judgments/Orders (Topicality/Impact) reflect those that we thought were important from a topical point of view and were covered by the media in some way owing to the importance of parties litigating or the issue being considered or for impact on industry and innovation/creativity ecosystem etc.

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