IP and Legal Filings

APRIL 19, 2023

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. Puttaswamy v.

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The IPKat

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

Part One: In this introductory part, the authors carefully laid out definitions and conceptual clarifications of the subject matter of IP. The authors succeeded in simplifying issues that seems typically complex especially for newcomers in the IP field: copyright authorship, ownership and protection.

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SpicyIP

JULY 29, 2021

The US copyright law of 1976 explicitly excludes the mechanical or utilitarian aspects of applied art from the definition of artistic craftmanship. As discussed above, section 2(c) of the Copyright Act which defines artistic work gives an illustrative definition. Shivam is a recent graduate of the Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi.

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SpicyIP

JULY 19, 2021

Serious Comparative Advertising: Broadening the Definition. She argues that the law should broaden the definition of serious comparative advertisement (where the owner of the mark advertises his product reference to his competitor’s product based on scientific study) by allowing multiple comparisons. Thematic Highlights.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

AUGUST 7, 2023

In this case, the author of the original work retains ownership of the original, while the author of the derivative work holds rights to the creative additions they have made. Perhaps it is impossible to define such boundaries definitively, necessitating a case-by-case analysis. [3] A film based on a book serves as an example.

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SpicyIP

JANUARY 2, 2022

The petitioner contented that Jayalalithaa’s personality rights and her family’s privacy rights should be protected and that the productions may be incorrect and misleading. In ‘congratulating’ newsmakers , advertisers open themselves up to accusations of unauthorizedly infringing on personality rights.

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SpicyIP

DECEMBER 30, 2023

[Delhi High Court] On May 23, the Delhi High Court passed an interesting jud gement on the issue of ownership of the copyright in a film screenplay and held that the copyright in the screenplay of the film ‘Nayak’, lay with Satyajit Ray and on his demise, with his son Sandip Ray and the Society for Preservation of Satyajit Ray Archives (SPSRA).

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