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Advent of AI Voice Generation and Threat to Personality Rights

IP and Legal Filings

The development of Artificial Intelligence, from being able to create edited photos to now generating deepfake videos that cannot be distinguished from real videos, has created an imminent threat to intellectual property rights and personality rights specifically. and includes both commercial and non-commercial aspects.

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Anil Kapoor Vs Simply Life India & Ors: An Unwavering Assurance In Safeguarding Personality Rights Against Ai

IP and Legal Filings

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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The EU imperative to a free public domain: The case of Italian cultural heritage

Kluwer Copyright Blog

In this context of international and EU legal obligations to protect cultural rights, the EU has set a legal imperative to protect the public domain. Building and enhancing the EU Digital Single Market is a quintessential component and the raison d’être of the EU law provision.

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SpicyIP Weekly Review (July 10 – July 16)

SpicyIP

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.

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Michelangelo’s David and cultural heritage images. The Italian pseudo-intellectual property and the end of public domain

Kluwer Copyright Blog

As in the Tribunale di Venezia and Tribunale di Firenze’s decisions, the idea is to transform the State into a commercial actor competing with other companies in the market of the commercial reproduction of cultural heritage images. The decisions of both the Tribunale di Venezia and the Tribunale di Firenze share some conceptual confusion.

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Publicity Rights: An analysis of Amitabh Bachchan V. Rajat Nagi & Ors.

Intepat

Due to the extent of unlawful activity associated with the petitioner’s name and personality, the court granted a restraining order on 25 th November 2022 against various people and companies. What are Publicity Rights? However, Indian law has indirect references for the protection of publicity rights. Under this Act, Sec.

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

SpicyIP

The plaintiff was granted, through an agreement, an exclusive non-transferable, non-assignable license for selling, supplying, and distributing the defendant’s brands in domestic and international markets. However, later the defendant served a termination notice against which the plaintiff filed this suit.

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