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AUGUST 22, 2021

In a guest post , Satchit Bhogle covered the issue of infringement of personality rights. It is noted that the test for identifying infringement of personality rights is to check whether there has been unauthorised use of identity for commercial gain and if there is a likelihood of confusion. News from India.

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JULY 19, 2021

In this post , Namratha analyses an interesting change occurring in the music industry due to the pandemic: the creation of a marketplace for royalties. 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. Other Posts.

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MAY 29, 2023

Ochoa authors Chapter 9, which is devoted to the overlaps between copyright and the rights of publicity or personality rights. Frankel’s hypothetical discusses a music band that, for their tracks, uses the recordings of traditional songs from a tribe in the Pacific Islands, which said band downloaded from the UNESCO website.

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MAY 20, 2024

IPRS argued that Vodafone’s use of the sound recordings infringed the copyright of authors of the underlying literary and musical works. The Court expressly held that ownership of copyright by producers does not limit the composers copyright. Jaikishan Kakubha Saraf alias Jackie Shroff v. The Peppy Stores & Ors.

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JANUARY 2, 2022

The suit concerned agreements dating back to 2001 between IPRS and ENIL regarding broadcasting music in certain cities. When ENIL broadcast music in cities other than the ones in the agreement, IPRS filed an infringement suit. Both suits were filed before the 2012 amendment to the Copyright Act.

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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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