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Anil Kapoor Vs Simply Life India & Ors: An Unwavering Assurance In Safeguarding Personality Rights Against Ai

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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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Your Face, is My Case: Personality Rights

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Jokes aside, the title of today’s post is “Your Face, is My Case,” because we’re talking about likeness and image rights, sometimes collectively referred to as “personality rights.” Student athletes are allowed to fully control their personality rights and make money licensing them.

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Fundamental Right to Privacy

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State of Uttar Pradesh (AIR 1963 SC 1295) case, the Court considered the power of the police to monitor history sheeters and found in the police’s favor, holding that the Constitution does not guarantee the right to privacy. Disclosure of even true private facts has the tendency to disturb a person’s tranquility.

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No Injunction on the Film ‘Nyay: The Justice’: Is It Really Just?

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Among the many grounds was the court’s refusal to afford post mortem protection to personality rights of the actor. I shall specifically be dealing with the contention around publicity rights. While not empirically provable, on a quick google search, it would naturally appear to any person as if the film is based on SSR.

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Why Moral Rights are Dead Serious: Preserving the Posthumous Moral Right of Integrity – Part I

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are typically objected to on the grounds of personality rights (publicity rights, celebrity rights, by other names), privacy and (to a limited extent) defamation. Accordingly, reputation, in line with its usage in defamation law, is the regard or esteem in which a person is held by others.

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Media Laws, Rights & Privacy Of Celebrities

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Cable, Video & Music Piracies The illegal production and sale of videos/movies are referred to as video piracy. CONTRACTUAL ISSUES Various contracts are signed and executed by various performers/artists and stakeholders. However, the industry is still dealing with a slew of legal issues daily. ISSN:1583-6258, Vol.

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Publicity Rights Concerning Sports Athletes

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Case Study 2- Cristiano Ronaldo (6) In mid-June of 2015, Cristiano Ronaldo sells his image rights to Peter Lim, who is the owner of Mint Media Company and opposing La Liga club Valencia. which follow and have codified legislation on publicity rights in general for sports.