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Personality Rights : Through The Glasses Of IPR

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Starting from an Actor promoting tourism advertisements to a cricketer promoting daily life snacks, we live in a celebrity-driven economy. Every day we come across many such influencers and celebrities endorsing products wherein the personality of an individual is traded either by validation or without. PERSONALITY RIGHT.

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Journey Through “Novembers” on SpicyIP (2005 – Present)

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Kurian’s trail of transparency, Statements of Patent (Non-)Working, Corruption in IP Offices, Serial Crisis in India, the Indian “Bayh Dole” Bill, etc. Although India now has the Digital Personal Data Protection Act 2023 , it doesn’t provide IP protection to databases. Missed anything? No worries, we got you! Sounds “Jhakaas!”

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Publicity Rights: An analysis of Amitabh Bachchan V. Rajat Nagi & Ors.

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Due to the extent of unlawful activity associated with the petitioner’s name and personality, the court granted a restraining order on 25 th November 2022 against various people and companies. What are Publicity Rights? However, Indian law has indirect references for the protection of publicity rights.

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Publicity Rights Concerning Sports Athletes

IP and Legal Filings

Case Study 2- Cristiano Ronaldo (6) In mid-June of 2015, Cristiano Ronaldo sells his image rights to Peter Lim, who is the owner of Mint Media Company and opposing La Liga club Valencia. which follow and have codified legislation on publicity rights in general for sports.

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

IP and Legal Filings

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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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. This year, we have divided these developments into three categories: a) Top 10 IP Judgments/Orders (Topicality/Impact). Lectro E-Mobility.

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A Look Back at India’s Top IP Developments of 2023

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As 2023 comes to an end, in line with our annual tradition, we take stock of the top IP developments that occurred this year. We’ve tried to represent a diversity of subject matter also in this list, so it’s a mixed bag of cases dealing with patents, trademarks, copyright law etc. A special thanks to Mr. G. Nataraj, Ms.

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