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Safeguarding Personal Names

Biswajit Sarkar Copyright Blog

This unauthorized usage may also give rise to breaches of confidence or violations of privacy. While economic interests can be quantified and compensated monetarily, non-economic concerns such as privacy violations, damage to reputation, and mental distress may not be entirely redressed through financial means.

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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

SpicyIP

An interim order issued by a single-judge bench of the Delhi High Court recognised the right to be forgotten (RTBF) as a subset of the fundamental right to privacy. Previously , the right had been discussed in the context of individual’s names appearing in judgments. Novex Communications Pvt Ltd v.

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Right of Publicity Part 2

IP and Legal Filings

Right To Publicity- A Constitutional Right The right of publicity stems from the right of privacy. But right to privacy only came to be recognised as a fundamental right in the year 2017 in the case of Justice K.S. Puttaswamy (retd.) Union of India and Ors. Nonetheless, in R. Rajagopal v.

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