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Fundamental Right to Privacy

IP and Legal Filings

Introduction Although there isn’t a clear legal definition of “privacy,” some legal experts define it as a human right that each and every person has simply by virtue of their existence. The right to privacy must, in other words, be evaluated case-by-case. In the 1962 Kharak Singh v.

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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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If a Lawyer Accepts a TOS While Investigating a Claim, Does It Bind the Client to Arbitration?

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

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. Related posts : “ Amazon Can’t Force Arbitration of Minors’ Privacy Claims Based on Alexa Recordings–BF v. The Ninth Circuit affirms in a memorandum opinion.

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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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[Guest post] China’s path to regulating facial recognition technology

The IPKat

Facial recognition technologies are already widespread in China, though their adoption and use needs to comply with a number of requirements. On the one hand, there are privacy and data protection concerns, as this is a particularly intrusive form of data processing. The technology has also caught the attention of Chinese lawmakers.

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SpicyIP Weekly Review (July 12 – 18)

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She highlights that the emphasis is on investing only in royalty revenue and not buying the artist’s rights or retaining control over their work. NFTs (Non-fungible tokens), which act as a certificate of ownership for whatever the creator puts up for sale, allow artists to set their preferred terms of contract while making sales.

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A Look Back at India’s Top IP Developments of 2021

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Particularly, it was argued that against the backdrop of the pandemic, the medicines produced were in high demand due to their characteristics of relieving some of the major symptoms exhibited by the patients who had contracted the Covid-19 virus. DXC Technology [Madras High Court]. Novex Communications Pvt Ltd v.

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