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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 In India : A Statutory And Judicial Analysis

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Introduction Personality rights refer to a person’s ability to safeguard his or her identity in the context of a property or privacy right. Celebrities value these rights since their names, images, or even voices may be inappropriately used in commercials by various businesses to increase sales.

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Media Laws, Rights & Privacy Of Celebrities

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Celebrities have objected to this because it interferes with their personal lives and their right to privacy. Every individual has the right to control his or her own life and image as it is portrayed to the rest of the world. The Indian Copyright Act of 1957 forbids and punishes acts of piracy.

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Vempati Ravi Shankar – Facebook Copyright Dispute: Issues on Moral Rights and Posthumous Enforcement of Celebrity Rights

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Recently, a copyright infringement suit had been filed before the District Court, Trivandrum, against Facebook India. Being his sole legal heir, the copyright in these works is held by Sweety Priyanka Vempati Ravi Shankar. The Right to Integrity. Here, there was no discussion if privacy survives an individual’s death.

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[Guest post] Artificial Intelligence and (hopefully) the death of copyright

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The IPKat has received and is pleased to host the following guest contribution by Katfriend Jakub Wyczik (University of Silesia in Katowice) on Artificial Intelligence (AI) and the application of copyright subsistence criteria. Human author It is well known that copyright protects products of the human mind (see Feist v. 99 (1879) ).

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Wanjiru v Machakos University: Image rights and its relationship with constitutional/human rights in Kenya

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In August, the Constitution and Human Rights Division of the High Court of Kenya issued a decision on the question of image rights and its relationship with privacy rights and data protection laws in Kenya. Background The Petitioner, Wanjiru was an alumna of the respondent, Machakos University. Paragraph 31].

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SpicyIP Weekly Review (July 10 – July 16)

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We also came across the Delhi High Court orders on the interplay between the Patents Act and the Competition Act, and on the inheritability of personality rights. The plaintiff further argued that he was the lawful successor to the personality rights of the late actor. Her area of interest lies in IP and corporate law.