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JANUARY 2, 2022

The Supreme Court looked into a wide variety of issues such as oxygen and Covid-19 drugs shortage, equitable pricing of vaccines, protection of health workers, possibility of invoking compulsory licenses and the clampdown on free speech on social media platforms. Recognition of non-human inventors, AI and its implications for India.

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DECEMBER 20, 2023

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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NOVEMBER 19, 2023

Here are our summaries of the blog posts published last week along with the summaries of some interesting orders from different courts. A Division Bench of the Delhi High Court to hear appeal against the Single Judge order in the Sushant Singh Rajput personality rights case. Anything we are missing out on?

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DECEMBER 30, 2023

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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AUGUST 16, 2021

Brands have been active on social media in recent years, trying to imbue their content with human like personality that endears customers to them rather than just putting out traditional advertising. When they do that, they open themselves up to accusations of unauthorisedly infringing on the athlete’s personality rights.

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JUNE 10, 2020

We live in the digital age of smartphones and social media, where the large scale capturing and sharing of photographs has become a global run-of-the-mill form of communication and expression. The rights in these photographs are typically subject to the licensing schemes of the various social media platforms to which they are posted.

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OCTOBER 1, 2023

In a “Jhakaas” (a slang for fantastic) news for the actor Anil Kapoor, Delhi High Court granted the actor an interim injunction against use/ misuse of his personality rights. Image from here Image Rights Alright—But Can They Trump Established Rights and Doctrines? The Curious Question 2—What About the Doctrine of Laches?

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