SpicyIP

JANUARY 2, 2022

Citing the agreement, the defendant requested the suit to be referred to an arbitration. 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. Durga Trading Corporation was clarified in this case.

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SpicyIP

JULY 19, 2021

She argues that the law should broaden the definition of serious comparative advertisement (where the owner of the mark advertises his product reference to his competitor’s product based on scientific study) by allowing multiple comparisons. In this guest post , Sangita Sharma analyses the law around comparative advertisements in India.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

APRIL 5, 2023

which refer to a person’s rights to name and image. On top of that, as the case demonstrates, the public domain may receive other threats from an aggressive extension of the scope of personality rights. Setting aside the private international law aspects, the case deserves examination on two main grounds.

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SpicyIP

MARCH 9, 2025

PPL, claiming ownership over public performance rights via assignments from music labels, alleged infringement after its representatives discovered unlicensed use of its repertoire. To address this, the appellant proposed amendments, primarily removing references to treatment and refining claim language.

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SpicyIP

DECEMBER 30, 2023

[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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43(B)log

AUGUST 9, 2024

Cesar Ramirez-Montes, Digital User Rights in the Mexican Supreme Court Potential for global South to think of exceptions/limitations as user rights, using Mexico as a point of reference. Authors’ rights are designed to protect that intellectual and emotional bond.

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SpicyIP

MAY 20, 2024

The Court analysed the jurisprudence of comparative advertisement, ‘overall effect’ test and referred to multiple case laws to conclude that the act of the defendants mislead and disparage plaintiff’s products due to strong association of blue colour with plaintiff’s products within the public. emphasizing on person skilled in the art.

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SpicyIP

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

Views expressed here are personal.] Ex Parte Orders on Personality Rights Courts lately have been passing a slew of ex-parte ad interim orders against Generative Artificial Intelligence (‘gen AI’ ) models for training their models using the voices of celebrities, and for producing output that reciprocates the celebrity’s voice.

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SpicyIP

DECEMBER 31, 2024

T Series And Another vs M/S Dreamline Reality Movies on 22 February [Punjab and Haryana High Court] The case concerned the adaptation of late Jaswinder Kaurs biography into a cinematographic film and deals with interplay of copyright with personality rights. On April 15, the Delhi High Court in Hershey’s v.

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SpicyIP

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

. “It Protects Them From Exploitation” The Claim : Capitalizing on celebrities’ identity subjects their personality rights to potential abuse and jeopardizes their career and livelihood. Many uses may actually enhance the celebrity’s cultural relevance and value.

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