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Personality Rights : Through The Glasses Of IPR

IP and Legal Filings

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. Living in an era where influential personalities are reverenced, fortifying Personality Rights from any such misuse is a must. PERSONALITY RIGHT.

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Fonts & Typefaces: Are they Copyrightable? 

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We’re happy to bring you a guest post by Shivam Kaushik on the copyrightability of fonts. Fonts & Typefaces: Are they Copyrightable? . Their function is so fundamental, and presence so ubiquitous that the thought that fonts and typefaces are eligible for copyright protection, seems inconceivable at first.

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The clash of artistic rights: Warhol, Goldsmith, and the boundaries of copyright in Brazil and in the U.S.

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Goldsmith et al sheds light on different perspectives of copyright law in common law and civil law countries. Firstly, both Brazilian and American legislation stipulate that the creator of a work holds copyright over it. A third reflection emerges: undoubtedly, Warhol’s work was created based on Goldsmith’s.

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Media Laws, Rights & Privacy Of Celebrities

IP and Legal Filings

Introduction The media believes that it is their fundamental right to capture and publish all information about celebrities about matters of “public interest” or “public concern” that arise from the “Freedom of the Press” guaranteed by Article 19 of the Constitution.

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IP Issues in The World of Japanese Sequential Art – Manga

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This makes it difficult for the creator to control the dissemination of their works. However, the US Court has held Napster [2] , which was a file-sharing platform as well, guilty of infringing copyrighted materials and was denied the defence of fair use. For content piracy, Takeshobo Inc., million JPY ($13,500 USD).

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