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St. Art Foundation v. Acko General Insurance: Decoding Street Art, Fair use and Moral rights

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52(1)(t) and ‘moral rights’ of the author in such work. Lastly, I will discuss the argument of moral rights of the author in contending the ‘fair use exemption’ of their work. As a corollary, it also asserted ‘moral rights’ over the mural under Sec. 2(c), the fair use exemption thereof under Sec.

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Fleshing out the copyright in a tattoo

IP Whiteboard

What about moral rights? As the owner of the copyright, Mr Black would have the exclusive rights to: reproduce the work in a material form; publish the work; and. What about moral rights? Another topic which has leads a rabbit hole is the question of moral rights. 1] [link]. [2] 2] [link]. [3]

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Personality Rights In India : A Statutory And Judicial Analysis

IP and Legal Filings

Since it intrudes on their private life and right to privacy, celebrities and public figures have objected to this. The Indian Copyright Act, 1957 According to the act , only creators and performers, including actors, singers, musicians and dancers, have moral rights. In Titan industries v. M/S Ramkumar jewellers, CS (OS) No.2662/2011,

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Derivative works: the Adventures of Koons and Tintin in French copyright law

Kluwer Copyright Blog

music synchronised in an advertisement) and adaptations (e.g. 113-4 IPC states that ‘A composite work shall be the property of the author who has produced it, subject to the rights of the author of the pre-existing work.’ A composite work is therefore a derivative work, i.e. simple incorporations (e.g. The parody defence.

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

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Interestingly, before Bachchan’s issue, Suchita elaborated on the status of personality rights in India against the backdrop of claims of the wife of the late Steve Irwin. In 2014, the Bombay High Court restrained the singer Mika Singh and the recording label OCP Music from publishing an advertisement that impinged Sonu’s personality rights.

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IT’S THE COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT FOR ME: WHY CLAIMS AGAINST MEME CONTENT SHOULD NOT MATTER

JIPL Online

If memes are so powerful to engage users with the underlying content, as recognized by their increased use as an advertising tool, then how can the same corporations claim that memes are creating a serious harm that the law should recognize and protect? Miceli, Law and Economics: Private and Public 23 (West Academic Publishing 2018). [v]

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SpicyIPWeekly Review (December 4- December 10)

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Here are our summaries of the blog posts published last week along with the summaries of some interesting orders from different courts. Decoding Street Art, Fair Use and Moral Rights Is usage of Mural art, in commercial advertisements covered by Fair use? Anything we are missing out on? Click to read!

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