Intepat

MAY 16, 2023

This brings us to the question of whether the usage of such photographs is lawful or not, regardless of the person being a celebrity. Recently, Amitabh Bachchan’s voice and his image had been used by various persons for commercial purposes without his consent. What are Publicity Rights? Under this Act, Sec.

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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. The Delhi High Court in the case of Zed Lifestyle Pvt Ltd v.

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SpicyIP

JULY 17, 2023

Yashna is a fifth-year law student at UILS, Panjab University, Chandigarh. Her area of interest lies in IP and corporate law. Her area of interest lies in IP and corporate law. Case Summaries Calcutta High Court restrains the defendant from infringing the unregistered trademark of the respondent Case: Usco S.P.A.

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SpicyIP

DECEMBER 20, 2023

The issue has often arisen in the context of protecting confidential information through copyright law. Basheer’s two larger-than-law type posts: The Seed(y) Saga and Pest Policy. While there has always existed an arguable case for personality rights in India, the winning stakes have gotten higher and clearer over the years.

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IP and Legal Filings

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

Introduction There is no exact legislation in India concerning regulating the publicity rights of a sports athlete. Through various proceedings from the Court of law, Publicity rights are inherent in Articles 19 and 21 of the Constitution of India. [i] iv] The Copyrights Act, 1957. [v]

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Selvam & Selvam Blog

APRIL 5, 2022

Nevertheless, victims of moment marketing have been afforded protection in varied forms under Indian law, as follows: Trade Marks Act, 1999: The Trade Marks Act, 1999 provides protection to registered and unregistered marks under Section 29 and 27 respectively. Personality Rights. Tata Tea Ltd (CS no.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

DECEMBER 27, 2021

Team Chloe includes attorneys of record from three different law firms. If you’re selling your personality rights, make sure you understand the implications!!! Because copyright law lets me, I’m reproducing the dog treats recipe below. Newspaper Can Talk About “Derby Pies” Without Infringing Trademarks–Rupp v.

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Intepat

DECEMBER 26, 2023

student from Hidayatullah National Law University. Protection of IPR by AI Intellectual Property Law with relation to Artificial Intelligence , plays a crucial role in safeguarding intellectual property by employing algorithms and content matching to detect infringing works. *Written by Narendra Rathia, a 4th Year B.A.

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The IPKat

SEPTEMBER 24, 2023

Here's what Jakub writes: Artificial Intelligence and (hopefully) the death of copyright by Jakub Wyczik* Last year, I wrote an article about how copyright law relates to creations generated by AI. In my opinion, there has never been any talk of such works, because that would be the same as talking about non-distinctive trademarks.

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IP and Legal Filings

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

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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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. Current State of the Law on Tattoo Designs.

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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.

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IP and Legal Filings

MAY 23, 2023

Image Sources : Shutterstock] Legal rights in domain names can be derived from these sources: registration of the name as a trademark ; prolonged use of the name for trading; or the biological name of a person. the owner of the well-known trademark “Yahoo!” Akash Arora and Ors. [1] The plaintiff, Yahoo!,

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IPilogue

DECEMBER 9, 2021

Candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School, enrolled in Professor David Vaver’s 2021-2022 Intellectual Property Law & Technology Intensive Program. While the protection of memes remains unclear and unresolved, plaintiffs can claim copyright, trademark, and personality rights in the underlying images. According to s.3(1)

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The IPKat

DECEMBER 17, 2021

The new policy underscores the need for further legislative reform including a revision of the Copyright and Performance Rights Act , the Plant Breeders Act , the Merchandise Marks Act , and the Trademarks Act. May in Nigeria was also about plant breeders’ rights.

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SpicyIP

AUGUST 16, 2021

PV Sindhu’s Olympics Victory: How Non-Sponsors Skirt the Law by ‘Congratulating’ Athletes. Brands have been active on social media in recent years, trying to imbue their content with human like personality that endears customers to them rather than just putting out traditional advertising. from Duke University in 2019.

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SpicyIP

JANUARY 2, 2022

We’ve tried to represent a diversity of subject matter also in this list, so we have a fair sprinkling of cases dealing with copyright, patents, trademarks, competition law etc. The case clarifies that the bar on arbitrability of trademark disputes is not an absolute one. Golden Tobacco Ltd [Delhi High Court].

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SpicyIP

JULY 19, 2021

In this guest post , Sangita Sharma analyses the law around comparative advertisements in India. 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.

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The IPKat

MAY 29, 2023

The second edition offers revised, or wholly rewritten chapters to the overlaps discussed in the first edition so as to reflect recent developments, as well as to include new chapters (the overlap between privacy and copyright law; privacy and secrecy; trademarks certification marks and collective marks; and IP and traditional knowledge).

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SpicyIP

DECEMBER 24, 2023

In this month’s edition, he looks into topics including the Plant Variety Registry, different tales of/ takes on personality rights, and multiple leaks of key documents and their contribution in law-making. Institute of Directors v. BSA Business Software Alliance Inc. vs Tube Investments of India Ltd. & and Ors. ,

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IP and Legal Filings

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Introduction The rights which are granted to the people for their creative work are known as intellectual property rights. They provide the creator a sole, time-limited right to make use of their invention. With this, trademark holders may now defend their logos on the web as well. Paramasivam & Ors. [i]

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SpicyIP

DECEMBER 30, 2023

We’ve tried to represent a diversity of subject matter also in this list, so it’s a mixed bag of cases dealing with patents, trademarks, copyright law etc. The Court delineated instances like parody and satire where free speech in the context of well-known persons may be protected. Bolt Technology v. First, in Toyota v.

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SpicyIP

JULY 13, 2021

student at the NALSAR University of Law, Hyderabad. Among the many grounds was the court’s refusal to afford post mortem protection to personality rights of the actor. I shall specifically be dealing with the contention around publicity rights. Nishtha is a 4th year B.A. Nishtha Gupta. Brief facts.

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SpicyIP

NOVEMBER 19, 2023

Other Posts Free Certificate Course in Application of Intellectual Property Rights for Startups and Entrepreneurship [November 22- 23] Free Certificate Course in Application of Intellectual Property Rights for Startups and Entrepreneurship on November 22 and 23. Capital General Store and Jawed Ansari v.

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IP and Legal Filings

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Therein, the Court categorically held that the right of publicity has evolved from the right of privacy and can inhere only in an individual or in any indicia of an individual’s personality like his name, personality trait, signature, voice, etc. Publicity Rights and the Right to Privacy in India, 31.1

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SpicyIP

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Image from here The Delhi High Court’s recent interim injunction concerning Anil Kapoor’s personality rights throws up an important question- should such orders protecting personality rights overlook the established principles and doctrines? But does the Indian Trademark Act allow such a treatment?

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