IP and Legal Filings
JANUARY 31, 2024
Introduction Although there isn’t a clear legal definition of “privacy,” some legal experts define it as a human right that each and every person has simply by virtue of their existence. The right to privacy must, in other words, be evaluated case-by-case. In the 1962 Kharak Singh v.
SpicyIP
JULY 17, 2023
We also came across the Delhi High Court orders on the interplay between the Patents Act and the Competition Act, and on the inheritability of personality rights. The plaintiff further argued that he was the lawful successor to the personality rights of the late actor. Her area of interest lies in IP and corporate law.
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SpicyIP
JULY 27, 2023
Hari Shankar affirmed the legal position on descendability of publicity rights as had been upheld previously by Indian courts. The judgement dated 11 th July 2023 disposed of an interim injunction application moved by the father of the deceased actor Sushant Singh Rajput. She has previously written for SpicyIP here and here.
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.
The IPKat
MAY 29, 2023
This Kat is pleased to review the “ Overlapping Intellectual Property rights ”, edited by Neil Wilkof [full disclosure: a member of the IPKat team], Shamnad Basheer, and Irene Calboli (OUP, 2023, 864 pp.). Ochoa authors Chapter 9, which is devoted to the overlaps between copyright and the rights of publicity or personality rights.
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