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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Personality Rights Intellectual Property Social Media Intellectual Property Law 74

Biswajit Sarkar Copyright Blog

JANUARY 22, 2024

Therefore, the need to safeguard one’s name becomes apparent, and Intellectual Property Rights offer a means to address this concern. These affected rights encompass personality rights, representing a distinctive form of intellectual property that transcends mere financial considerations.

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Intellectual Property Registration Trademark Personality Rights 76

Kluwer Copyright Blog

APRIL 5, 2023

Opposing the claimants’ arguments, Ravensburger challenged the cross-border application of Italian law, alleging that the claims conflict with article 14 of Copyright Directive in the Digital Single Market (CDSM) Directive since they attempt to unlawfully impose property assertions on public domain works.

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Public Domain Copyright Law Artwork 98

SpicyIP

JULY 19, 2021

She highlights that the emphasis is on investing only in royalty revenue and not buying the artist’s rights or retaining control over their work. NFTs (Non-fungible tokens), which act as a certificate of ownership for whatever the creator puts up for sale, allow artists to set their preferred terms of contract while making sales.

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Advertising Advertising Non-Fungible Tokens Intellectual Property 105

Kluwer Copyright Blog

AUGUST 7, 2023

In this case, the author of the original work retains ownership of the original, while the author of the derivative work holds rights to the creative additions they have made. Thus, Warhol possessed rights over the creative contributions he made, but so did Goldsmith, as her creation served as the foundation for the final artwork.

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SpicyIP

JANUARY 2, 2022

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. In ‘congratulating’ newsmakers , advertisers open themselves up to accusations of unauthorizedly infringing on personality rights.

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IP Intellectual Property Copyright Trademark 143

SpicyIP

DECEMBER 30, 2023

[Delhi High Court] On May 23, the Delhi High Court passed an interesting jud gement on the issue of ownership of the copyright in a film screenplay and held that the copyright in the screenplay of the film ‘Nayak’, lay with Satyajit Ray and on his demise, with his son Sandip Ray and the Society for Preservation of Satyajit Ray Archives (SPSRA).

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