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. This case addresses the often-relevant question of whether counsel can compromise a client’s rights through use of a site or agreement to a terms of service.

Privacy 99

Privacy Contracts Personality Rights Litigation 99

The IPKat

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

Wanjiru argued that the motive of using the photograph was commercial gain seeing as people would pay to take the advertised courses and that the use of her image resulted in people assuming that there was an employment or a brand ambassador contract between the parties when there was none.

Privacy 97

Privacy Personality Rights Advertising Advertising 97

SpicyIP

MAY 3, 2023

are typically objected to on the grounds of personality rights (publicity rights, celebrity rights, by other names), privacy and (to a limited extent) defamation. The integrity right can be exercised by legal representatives of the author as well.

Moral Rights 114

Moral Rights Personality Rights Copyright Privacy 114

The IPKat

AUGUST 9, 2021

Already enacted and practically significant , but legally non-binding is the “Personal Information Security Specification” of 2020, which similarly categorises “facial recognition features” as sensitive personal information and requires explicit, unbundled consent and specific security measures.

Technology 127

Technology Privacy Law Litigation 127

SpicyIP

JULY 13, 2021

A recent order by a single judge of the Delhi High Court in a litigation demanding an injunction on the release of the film allegedly based around the life of Sushant Singh Rajput (‘SSR’) is another instance of the controversy surrounding the matter. I shall specifically be dealing with the contention around publicity rights.

Privacy 105

Privacy Personality Rights Moral Rights Copyright 105

SpicyIP

JANUARY 2, 2022

The decisions in the first category , i.e., Top 10 IP Judgments/Orders (Topicality/Impact) reflect those that we thought were important from a topical point of view and were covered by the media in some way owing to the importance of parties litigating or the issue being considered or for impact on industry and innovation/creativity ecosystem etc.

IP 143

IP Intellectual Property Copyright Trademark 143

SpicyIP

DECEMBER 30, 2023

The decisions in the first category, i.e., Top 10 IP Cases/Judgements (Topicality/Impact) reflect those that we thought were important from a topical point of view and were covered by the media in some way owing to the importance of parties litigating or the issue being considered or for impact on industry and innovation/creativity ecosystem etc.

IP 124

IP Copyright Trademark Intellectual Property 124