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Book Review: Overlapping Intellectual Property Rights (Second Edition)

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With a focus on EU and US approaches to the issue, Musker suggests arguments that may be useful to litigants in similar situations. Ochoa authors Chapter 9, which is devoted to the overlaps between copyright and the rights of publicity or personality rights.

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No Injunction on the Film ‘Nyay: The Justice’: Is It Really Just?

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A recent order by a single judge of the Delhi High Court in a litigation demanding an injunction on the release of the film allegedly based around the life of Sushant Singh Rajput (‘SSR’) is another instance of the controversy surrounding the matter. I shall specifically be dealing with the contention around publicity rights.

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

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The decisions in the first category , i.e., Top 10 IP Judgments/Orders (Topicality/Impact) reflect those that we thought were important from a topical point of view and were covered by the media in some way owing to the importance of parties litigating or the issue being considered or for impact on industry and innovation/creativity ecosystem etc.

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