Olartemoure Blog

JULY 17, 2024

TRADEMARKS AND TATTOOS Tattoos can also intersect with trademark law. For example, if a tattoo features a recognizable brand logo or slogan, it could infringe on the trademark holder’s rights. These rights include the right to attribution and the right to object to derogatory treatments of the work.

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SpicyIP

JANUARY 2, 2022

Google argued that even when the keyword is a trademark, it is never used in a ‘trademark sense’, thereby the invisible use of trademarks, as keyword, failing to meet the threshold to constitute infringement. Recognition of non-human inventors, AI and its implications for India.

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SpicyIP

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

There is one titled “Overlaps between Copyright, Rights of Publicity, and Personality Rights” authored by Tyler T. The chapter is, for the most part, a jurisdictional study on the overlap between copyright, publicity, rights, and personality rights. Their focus of jurisdiction is EU, German law, and US law.

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Selvam & Selvam Blog

APRIL 5, 2022

Accordingly, any unauthorized use of any kind of logo or symbol associated with any event, can make a case of trademark infringement. Personality Rights. With specific reference to India, personality rights are considered a part of the right to privacy guaranteed under Article 21 of the Indian Constitution.

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SpicyIP

DECEMBER 30, 2023

[Delhi High Court] On September 20, the Delhi High Court granted relief to film actor Anil Kapoor against the unauthorised use of his image, name, voice, and other traits of his persona for monetary gain, reinforcing his personality rights. Sarl a A Sarogi , where the Court affirmed the position on descendability of publicity rights.

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IP and Legal Filings

MAY 23, 2023

The right to use the name “Arun Jaitley” vested with the plaintiff alone on account of being a well-known mark and the plaintiff’s personal right and entitlement to use his personal name. The court further observed that the domain name “arunjaitley.com” had been registered in the bad faith.

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IP and Legal Filings

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

ABSTRACT There has been a dramatic increase in the commercial use of celebrity personalities by people not authorized to do so compared to the earlier times. Protecting personality rights has become a growing problem in India due to deepfakes, morphed pictures, etc. Interesting right? Puttaswamy v.

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Biswajit Sarkar Copyright Blog

JANUARY 22, 2024

These affected rights encompass personality rights, representing a distinctive form of intellectual property that transcends mere financial considerations. Personality rights, being non-inheritable and non-assignable, highlight the personal and non-transferable essence of this form of intellectual property.

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SpicyIP

AUGUST 16, 2021

When they do that, they open themselves up to accusations of unauthorisedly infringing on the athlete’s personality rights. But the patriotism of FMCG and other companies, entities who have personality and nationality only by legal fiction, is less certain. The landmark judgement in this regard is D.M. Entertainment Pvt.

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IPilogue

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

The Cowichan could have had a stronger claim against Ralph Lauren, given that they had already turned their minds to protecting their intellectual property through trademark law. In 2009, the Belgian Court of Appeal was tasked with deciding whether a tattoo could be granted ownership under Belgian copyright law in JDH v JM.

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SpicyIP

JULY 10, 2024

What Constitutes ‘ use’ of a Trademark While the Commercial Court appears to have sided with the respondents (Shane Ali) after prima facie finding the mark used in the film to be deceptively similar to the NBC logo, what appears to have been overlooked, is that there was no ‘use’ of trademark in the first place.

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IP and Legal Filings

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Jaitley’s right and pronounced that any person may be restrained from using the names of popular or well-known celebrities, when the particular name is a well-known trademark as envisaged under the basic principles of trademark law and thatcelebrity is entitled to use his name for commercial purposes.

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