The IPKat
NOVEMBER 6, 2023
While it appears to be easier to waive moral rights in common law countries, the continental European tradition is more focused on protecting the author’s personality rights, which encompass moral rights. The right of attribution is particularly important for photographers and their licensees.
IPilogue
NOVEMBER 17, 2021
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. Going Forward.
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Biswajit Sarkar Copyright Blog
JANUARY 22, 2024
Need for Protection of Personal Names through IPR Celebrities commonly demand a licensing fee for the utilization of their name, image, or other distinctive attributes in advertising or merchandising endeavours. An effective solution to address this concern is the formal registration of a celebrity’s name as a trademark.
SpicyIP
SEPTEMBER 25, 2023
Case Summaries Anil Kapoor vs Simply Life India & Ors on 20 September, 2023 (Delhi High Court) Image from here The Plaintiff sought protection of his personality rights, publicity rights and elements associated with his persona like his name, voice, photographs/ likeness, dialogues, manner of dialogue delivery, gestures, signatures.
The IPKat
OCTOBER 7, 2021
With copyright being in most cases not a public but a private right, it entails private autonomy, allowing - within the limits of dispositive national rights - free contracting over copyright assets and estates. Next to licensing, lending or selling those estates, making their fate part of a will is also a viable option for many.
SpicyIP
JULY 29, 2021
Typeface’ refers to the particular design of letters, numbers, marks and symbols. Shivam is a recent graduate of the Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi. But as I will discuss in this post, they fulfill the eligibility criteria as provided under the Copyright Act, 1957. Before we begin, let me lay down the glossary for this post.
Canadian Intellectual Property Blog
JUNE 10, 2020
The rights in these photographs are typically subject to the licensing schemes of the various social media platforms to which they are posted. That said, the law is less clear as to the particular rights of private citizens who are the subject of an image to which they did not consent. 13 C.P.R. (2d)
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