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Africa IP highlights 2023: Copyright

The IPKat

In Nigeria, Airtel Nigeria Limited neglected to renew their contract with actor and filmmaker Adewole Ojo to use his photographs for advertisements. The photographer, Esther Umoh called this person out for copyright infringement on social media platform “X”. Katpost on the ruling here.

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"Elasticated gusset" saves the day before Recorder Amanda Michaels in Fairfox & Favor's design right case against House of Bruar

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A very popular design of one of these boots is based on a traditional Spanish riding boot - the Regina boot or Heeled Regina - which looks like the below (and for a closer look click here ). Although their products have the "country" look and feel about them, the products aren't designed for serious country wear.

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WIPIP 2022, Session 3 (ROP/TM, (c) fair use)

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Emma Perot, Publicity Rights, Celebrity Contracts, and Social Norms: Industry Practices in the US and UK Fenty v Topshop: Misrepresentation/passing off theories were successful for Rihanna in UK. Influence of law, desire to contract, social norms. Desire to contract: contracts clearly define scope of rights.

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

IP and Legal Filings

” Dark patterns are deceptive tactics or design patterns that impair people’s autonomy, decision-making, or choice to force them to do something. The plaintiff filed the defence of personality rights infringement based on the contract that allocated the personas to them. https :// www.jstor.org/stable/26918425 Dogan, S.

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2021 Internet Law Year-in-Review

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

First, governments can never successfully operate a social media service. Of course, mobs, riots, rebellions, pogroms, lynchings, and other coordinated killings have taken place throughout human history, well before social media existed. social media has played an outsized role in finding and prosecuting the insurrection.