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Anil Kapoor Vs Simply Life India & Ors: An Unwavering Assurance In Safeguarding Personality Rights Against Ai

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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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Delhi High Court holds that personality rights of deceased persons are not heritable

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As regards legislation, there is no statute in India that expressly recognises the publicity or personality rights of individuals; therefore, the aspect of inheritance of publicity rights of a deceased person is still not entirely settled. vested in SSR (and were not heritable). vested in SSR (and were not heritable).

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

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Continuing our annual tradition of recounting the significant developments that impacted the Indian IP landscape in the year that has been, we bring you a round-up of 2021’s developments. Intellectual Property Appellate Board abolished through the Tribunals Reform Act, 2021. Patents (Amendment) Rules, 2021.

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Protection of Portrait Rights in Trademark Right Granting and Verification Cases

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In the Civil Code of the People's Republic of China, which came into effect as of January 1, 2021, “personality rights” has become a major highlight for its independent codification. As a result, the protection of human dignity and personality rights has been further strengthened.

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Taking Publicity and Privacy to the Grave: Delhi High Court on Descendability of Publicity Rights

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Factual Background The case at hand involved the plaintiff seeking an interim injunction against the defendants to restrain them from using the name/likeness of the late actor unauthorizedly through the release of the impugned film amounting to infiltration of personality rights, violation of free trial, passing off et al.

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SpicyIP Weekly Review (August 16 – 22)

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In a guest post , Satchit Bhogle covered the issue of infringement of personality rights. It is noted that the test for identifying infringement of personality rights is to check whether there has been unauthorised use of identity for commercial gain and if there is a likelihood of confusion. Other Developments.

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Vempati Ravi Shankar – Facebook Copyright Dispute: Issues on Moral Rights and Posthumous Enforcement of Celebrity Rights

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Muthulakshmi , the Madras High Court held that Veerappan ’s widow does not have any right to privacy in respect of the film being made on Veerappan’s life, as the film is based on police records. discussed here ) In 2021, a position contrary to Kirtibhai was taken by the Madras High Court in Deepa Jayakumar v.