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SpicyIP Weekly Review (July 12 – 18)

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She highlights that the emphasis is on investing only in royalty revenue and not buying the artist’s rights or retaining control over their work. NFTs (Non-fungible tokens), which act as a certificate of ownership for whatever the creator puts up for sale, allow artists to set their preferred terms of contract while making sales.

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

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Several petitions in the Madras High Court challenged the validity of rule 29(4) of the Copyright Rules, 2013. The petitioner contented that Jayalalithaa’s personality rights and her family’s privacy rights should be protected and that the productions may be incorrect and misleading. Saregama India Limited v.

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