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Unreasoned Orders for Personality Rights

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However, the order was brief and did not specify any statutory or common law basis for the protection of personality rights, merely citing Titan Industries as precedent. For example, can personality rights be viewed as an extension of the right to privacy? In Gautam Gambhir v. D.A.P & Co. &

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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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Announcing the Winners of the 2nd Shamnad Basheer Essay Competition on IP Law!

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The article endorses an intellectual property approach to understand the right and its infringement. This is achieved by understanding the parallels between publicity right and trademark law. The drawbacks in applying normative copyright defences in public photography are then explored.

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

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We’ve tried to represent a diversity of subject matter also in this list, so we have a fair sprinkling of cases dealing with copyright, patents, trademarks, competition law etc. The Indian Performing Right Society Limited (IPRS) v. Both suits were filed before the 2012 amendment to the Copyright Act.

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A Look Back at India’s Top IP Developments of 2023

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We’ve tried to represent a diversity of subject matter also in this list, so it’s a mixed bag of cases dealing with patents, trademarks, copyright law etc. While delineating the rights of the parties, the Court held that R.D HarperCollins Publishers India Pvt. the licensee. The judgement was authored by Justice C.

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Right of Publicity Part 2

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Protection Of Publicity Right As A Well-Known Trademark Although, publicity rights do not have any statutory protection per se in the Indian Law, but publicity rights in some form are protected by The Trade Marks Act, 1999 and The Copyright Act, 1957. In another case of Indian Performing Rights Society v.

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