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Advent of AI Voice Generation and Threat to Personality Rights

IP and Legal Filings

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 personality rights specifically. and includes both commercial and non-commercial aspects.

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

SpicyIP

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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[Guest Post] Book review: Intellectual Property Law in Nigeria: Emerging Trends, Theories And Practice

The IPKat

The beauty of this book is that the authors have taken all the above into consideration and have presented this book with deliberate simplicity and yet deep in scope and analytical preponderance. Chapter two presents the legal and policy framework for IP protection at the international, regional and domestic levels.

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

SpicyIP

The present case clarified that there is a distinction between cases directly arising from IPR issues and those arising from indirectly connected matters. The petitioner contented that Jayalalithaa’s personality rights and her family’s privacy rights should be protected and that the productions may be incorrect and misleading.

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SpicyIP Weekly Review (July 12 – 18)

SpicyIP

In the event of assignment of rights, any person wishing to legally record a film would have to additionally obtain written permission from the author aside from the permissions already needed from the present copyright owner. Not obtaining the author’s consent might lead to heavy penalties.

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Copyright Challenges with Non-Fungible Tokens

Intepat

However, this emerging digital marketplace presents intellectual property challenges that mirror—but also differ from—those found in the physical world. NFTs are unique digital tokens that represent ownership of specific digital assets. Secondly, there is a lot of confusion regarding the ownership and authorship of the work.

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The puzzled tie of copyright, cultural heritage and public domain in Italian law: is the Vitruvian Man taking on unbalanced proportions?

Kluwer Copyright Blog

On appeal from an earlier order, the present ruling affirmed the Court of Venice’s competence to rule on the infringing conduct, i.e., the use of the work’s image to produce and distribute puzzles faithfully reproducing it by all the companies of the Ravensburger group. Nonetheless, this case is anything but balanced.