IP and Legal Filings

MAY 17, 2024

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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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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IPilogue

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

Emily Prieur is an IPilogue Writer and a 3L JD Candidate at Queen’s University Faculty of Law. . The Cowichan could have had a stronger claim against Ralph Lauren, given that they had already turned their minds to protecting their intellectual property through trademark law. Collective Ownership Over Cultural Artwork.

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The IPKat

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

This book review of Intellectual Property Law in Nigeria: Emerging Trends, Theories And Practice by Desmond Oriakhogba (University of the Western Cape, South Africa) and Ifeoluwa Olubiyi (Afe Babaloloa University, Ado-Ekiti, Nigeria) is kindly provided by Kasim Waziri , Professor of Law at the University of Abuja, Nigeria.

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SpicyIP

AUGUST 22, 2021

PV Sindhu’s Olympics Victory: How Non-Sponsors Skirt the Law by ‘Congratulating’ Athletes. In a guest post , Satchit Bhogle covered the issue of infringement of personality rights. The post covers the prevailing precedents on the matter. News from India. You can read our posts on the report here , here , here , here and here.

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Biswajit Sarkar Copyright Blog

JANUARY 22, 2024

Many companies exploit renowned person identities without obtaining proper consent, leading intellectual property experts to advocate for the safeguarding of image rights through registration under Intellectual Property laws.

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SpicyIP

JULY 29, 2021

The legal position in India is that fonts do not enjoy copyright protection under its copyright law, i.e. under the Copyright Act, 1957 (page 5). The US copyright law of 1976 explicitly excludes the mechanical or utilitarian aspects of applied art from the definition of artistic craftmanship.

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