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Personality Rights In India : A Statutory And Judicial Analysis

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Introduction Personality rights refer to a person’s ability to safeguard his or her identity in the context of a property or privacy right. Celebrities value these rights since their names, images, or even voices may be inappropriately used in commercials by various businesses to increase sales. Puttaswamy v.

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Publicity rights in the AI era: Key takeaways from artist Arijit Singh’s recent legal Victory in India

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the Bombay Court recently took a pro-publicity and -personality rights stance in an ex-parte ad-interim order concerning the unauthorized use and cloning of Indian artist Arijit Singh ’s voice by multiple defendants. In essence, Arijit Singh lamented a troubling array of violations of his publicity and personality rights.

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Voice Clones and Legal Tones: The Intersection of Artificial Intelligence and Posthumous Personality Rights

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Image from here Voice Clones and Legal Tones: The Intersection of Artificial Intelligence and Posthumous Personality Rights By Julia Anna Joseph and Snehal Khemka Generative Artificial Intelligence (“AI”), a game-changing phenomenon in modern day life creates art, plans daily tasks, analyzes data, generates music, and much more.

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John Doe Order Issued Against “Taarak Mehta” Infringers: Revisiting the Rights Vested in Fictional Characters

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However, its specific emphasis on protecting certain elements of the whole scheme of copyrighted content, such as fictional characters and the distinctive personas they embody, has been a focal point, contributing substantially to the discourse surrounding the ever-expanding ambit of copyrightability as well as personality rights.

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Journey Through “Novembers” on SpicyIP (2005 – Present)

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From Big-B Baritone to Anil Kapoor’s Jhakaas, the life of Personality rights : Since Shouvik’s 2010 post about Amitabh Bachhan’s concern over the use of his voice to sell Gutka (an addictive substance), we have come to a long way! Speaking of late movie stars, one may wonder about the posthumous enforcement of celebrity rights.

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

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HarperCollins Publishers India Pvt. Based on the above reasoning, the Court refused to grant an injunction against the novelization of Nayak’s screenplay by Harper Collins Publishers India Pvt. The Court delineated instances like parody and satire where free speech in the context of well-known persons may be protected.

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IPSC Breakout 5 Comparative Approaches

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Grand Chamber arrived at a different conclusion in May/June 2024, but have not published reasoning. Authors’ rights are designed to protect that intellectual and emotional bond. Strong emphasis on moral rights in continental Europe. Somehow people just skip past the medium in modern moral rights argument—but how and why?]