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Right of Publicity Part 2

IP and Legal Filings

Arvee Enterprises in 2003. 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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Time for the 12 O'Clock Boyz to go: court shuts down (c)/TM lawsuit against documentary & feature film about Baltimore bikers

43(B)log

Plaintiffs also alleged infringement of Monbo’s right of publicity, unjust enrichment, and violations of the Lanham Act and related Maryland trademark law. The 2001 Documentary “sold 50,000 copies in two weeks and revolutionized the Baltimore dirt-bike culture,” inspiring a sequel and plans to make a third film.

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IP infringement in Metaverse

IIPRD

The first and the foremost question which crosses our minds is that does the digital assets in the virtual reality fall under the category of “Goods” under trademark law, and who should be held liable for infringement when the infringer is unknown. Copyright Infringement. Later it was settled.

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Protection Of Fictional Character’s Copyright And The Doctrine Of Fair Use In The Digital Age

IP and Legal Filings

Unfortunately, copyright and trademark law do not provide particular protection for these characters, who, more often than not, exceed their original works to become well-known of their own. Introduction: Whether they arise from literary, artistic, or cinematic works, fictional characters are born of greater productions.

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New Tools, Old Rules: Is The Music Industry Ready To Take On AI?

Copyright Lately

The comments from Michael Nash quoted above really only speak to the input phase, during which audio recordings are copied to a dataset that’s then used to train a voice model. It isn’t human-readable and does not contain copies of any audio recordings. No wonder I’m getting flashbacks to 2003. Ciccone , 824 F.3d

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WHAT, IN THE NAME OF GOD, …?: Intellectual Property Rights In Holy Names, Sacred Words, & Other Aspects of Creation

LexBlog IP

The report notes on page 11 that “In 2003, research estimates put the [U.S.] Second , it has been argued that the court merely espoused the settled principles of trademark law that ‘common’ names and phrases cannot be monopolized. copyright law. ” Ginsburg (2003) at 1086-87.