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Personality Rights : Through The Glasses Of IPR

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Every day we come across many such influencers and celebrities endorsing products wherein the personality of an individual is traded either by validation or without. Living in an era where influential personalities are reverenced, fortifying Personality Rights from any such misuse is a must. PERSONALITY RIGHT.

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SpicyIP Tidbit: Union Minister of State for Commerce and Industry clarifies Current IPR Regime Sufficient for AI Works Protection

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Whether the government plans to amend the Copyright Act of 1957 to update copyright laws to cover AI-generated content. By imputing a similar logic, not obtaining licenses for uses such as training of GenAI systems by developers could also be considered commercial exploitation and might not qualify as fair dealing.

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Journey Through “Novembers” on SpicyIP (2005 – Present)

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Spadika Jayaraj discussed a case where the Delhi High Court dismissed a suit by a media house accusing copyright infringement on its database of users. The issue has often arisen in the context of protecting confidential information through copyright law. E.g., see Prateek Surisetti’s post here and Niyati Prabhu’s post here.

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Traditional Tattoos on the Red Carpet: Continuing the Conversation of Collective Ownership

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These events point to two prevalent issues within the current legal framework: First, that current intellectual property laws do not properly acknowledge collective ownership over shared culture within Indigenous communities and second, whether tattoo designs have the potential to be protected through copyright laws.

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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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SpicyIP Weekly Review (August 16 – 22)

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PV Sindhu’s Olympics Victory: How Non-Sponsors Skirt the Law by ‘Congratulating’ Athletes. In a guest post , Satchit Bhogle covered the issue of infringement of personality rights. The post covers the prevailing precedents on the matter. You can read our posts on the report here , here , here , here and here.

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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. This is coupled with a dismal lack of awareness of rights (especially of the non-economic kind) available under copyright law amongst authors in India.