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Media Laws, Rights & Privacy Of Celebrities

IP and Legal Filings

Celebrities have objected to this because it interferes with their personal lives and their right to privacy. This recorded music is frequently sold at significantly lower prices than market rates, resulting in massive losses for music producers. The Indian Copyright Act of 1957 forbids and punishes acts of piracy.

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[Guest post] Generative AI, originality, and the potential role of contract in protecting unoriginal works

The IPKat

Such ‘synthetic’ training data can be very valuable, as it can be used where real-world training data is scarce or where the use of real-world data is difficult due to privacy or security concerns. Does UK copyright law protection extend to computer-generated works which are not original?

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SpicyIP Weekly Review (September 13-19)

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Furthermore, he highlights that the court took due notice of the strong presence of the defendants in the market and delayed infringement action brought by the plaintiffs, and thereby indirectly applying the clean hands doctrine. The Calcutta High Court in Sri Parvathy Saltern Private Ltd. September 13, 2021]. Ishvi Food Private Ltd.

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Yearbook Defendants Lose Two More Section 230 Rulings

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

In particular, they are having some success bending Section 230, and this genre offers some interesting considerations for folks paying attention to the privacy/230 borders. The statutory exception for depicting people in literary and artistic works doesn’t apply to the associated ads (?). Callahan v. PeopleConnect, Inc.,

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Industrial Design through AI: Impact and Protection

Biswajit Sarkar Copyright Blog

HOW IS AI RESTRUCTURING THE INDUSTRIAL DESIGN MARKET? The primary aim of this article is to analyze how the implementation of AI is impacting Industrial Designs and how AI generated Industrial Designs can be safeguarded with the shield of Intellectual Property Law. The use of generative AI in the manufacturing of ID is a revolutionary step.

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Shielding Innovation: Understanding Copyright Protection for App Developers and Their Software

Intepat

Introduction With the rise of the mobile application industry, India emerges as a highly profitable market, witnessing over twenty-eight billion downloads in 2022, accounting for 5% of the total global downloads. In the context of the Copyright Act, computer software is categorized as a ‘literary work’. What is copyright protection?

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SpicyIP Weekly Review (June 28 – July 4)

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Shri Mahaveer Jain Industries , noted the defendant’s acknowledgment of the proprietary rights of the plaintiff in its distinctive original artistic work i.e., ‘Elle 18 face’ used in relation to the plaintiff’s nail polishes. Some of these could survive the death of the celebrity, however, the right to privacy was not among them.