Technology & Marketing Law Blog

MARCH 23, 2022

This is a putative class action lawsuit against a people search company for allegedly misusing publicity and personality rights by displaying images contained in yearbooks. appeared first on Technology & Marketing Law Blog. Judge Chen (of the Northern District of California) answered this question “no”. Facebook.”.

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IPilogue

DECEMBER 9, 2021

As part of the course requirements, students were asked to write a blog on a topic of their choice. While the protection of memes remains unclear and unresolved, plaintiffs can claim copyright, trademark, and personality rights in the underlying images. It’s no secret that memes have taken the internet by storm. According to s.3(1)

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Biswajit Sarkar Copyright Blog

JANUARY 22, 2024

These affected rights encompass personality rights, representing a distinctive form of intellectual property that transcends mere financial considerations. Personality rights, being non-inheritable and non-assignable, highlight the personal and non-transferable essence of this form of intellectual property.

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Intepat

MAY 16, 2023

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?

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SpicyIP

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Look no further as we present to you the SpicyIP Weekly Review, highlighting the discussions that took place on the blog along with other IP news. Wondering what IP developments took place last week? Lokesh discusses the case in this short tidbit post.

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IPilogue

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

The court ruled that the tattoo artist did in fact own the copyright in his tattoo design; however, he was limited by the personality rights of the person he tattooed. Notably, Belgian copyright law includes a statutory right to privacy , which includes the right to control your image.

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SpicyIP

JULY 27, 2023

Factual Background The case at hand involved the plaintiff seeking an interim injunction against the defendants to restrain them from using the name/likeness of the late actor unauthorizedly through the release of the impugned film amounting to infiltration of personality rights, violation of free trial, passing off et al.

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SpicyIP

JULY 19, 2021

She highlights that the Court refused to afford post mortem protection to personality rights of the actor. Nishtha emphasises that in determining whether the deceased possessed personality rights enforceable by his heirs, the Court based its reasoning on the intertwining between privacy and publicity rights.

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SpicyIP

JANUARY 2, 2022

The petitioner contented that Jayalalithaa’s personality rights and her family’s privacy rights should be protected and that the productions may be incorrect and misleading. The significance of the report and its issues have been extensively covered on the blog here.

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SpicyIP

NOVEMBER 19, 2023

Here are our summaries of the blog posts published last week along with the summaries of some interesting orders from different courts. A Division Bench of the Delhi High Court to hear appeal against the Single Judge order in the Sushant Singh Rajput personality rights case. Anything we are missing out on?

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SpicyIP

DECEMBER 24, 2023

From an in-depth discussion on the terms of copyright and translations in India to the recent UK Supreme Court’s order regarding the patentability of inventions by an AI, we had some engaging posts on this blog this week. To read these, along with a round up of IP developments around the country, and world, read on below.

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SpicyIP

DECEMBER 30, 2023

[Delhi High Court] On September 20, the Delhi High Court granted relief to film actor Anil Kapoor against the unauthorised use of his image, name, voice, and other traits of his persona for monetary gain, reinforcing his personality rights. Sarl a A Sarogi , where the Court affirmed the position on descendability of publicity rights.

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IP and Legal Filings

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Emerging Trends in Publicity Rights in India : An Analysis Under the Intellectual Property Laws in India, 2 CMET (2015) 74 Zacchini v. Publicity Rights and the Right to Privacy in India, 31.1 06-10.305, [link] Publicity Right in India: A Misconception! Scripps Howard Broadcasting Co., 53 L Ed 2d 965 : 433 US 5624 (1977).

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SpicyIP

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Look no further as we present to you the SpicyIP Weekly Review, highlighting the discussions that took place on the blog along with other IP news. Image Rights Alright—But Can They Trump Established Rights and Doctrines? Wondering what IP developments took place last week? Should They? Read the post by Prof.

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