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Book Review: Overlapping Intellectual Property Rights (Second Edition)

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Ochoa authors Chapter 9, which is devoted to the overlaps between copyright and the rights of publicity or personality rights. Being taken from an actual instance of Canadian litigation, the hypothetical allows Sundara Rajan to address differences in treatment of moral rights between civil law and common law countries.

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

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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. The plaintiffs’ claim which demanded recognition of post mortem rights thereby did not find favour with the court.

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