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Music Industry Threatens ‘Deepfake AI Music’ Service With Legal Action

TorrentFreak

In the UK, music industry group BPI has enetered the mix, targeting AI-generated voice models and cover tracks. In so doing, they are endangering the future success of British musicians and their music.” This use of copyrighted music, combined with the commercial nature of Jammable, is not allowed according to BPI.

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Personality Rights : Through The Glasses Of IPR

IP and Legal Filings

Every day we come across many such influencers and celebrities endorsing products wherein the personality of an individual is traded either by validation or without. Living in an era where influential personalities are reverenced, fortifying Personality Rights from any such misuse is a must. PERSONALITY RIGHT.

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A blow to image rights?: the Supreme Court rules on the protection of the personality rights of deceased celebrities

Garrigues Blog

The Supreme Court has again ruled on the protection of the personality rights of deceased celebrities. Analyzed in conjunction with the previous Dalí judgment, this new ruling may introduce some uncertainty as to the post mortem scope of protection of such rights. La entrada A blow to image rights?: Ricardo López Alzaga.

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Vempati Ravi Shankar – Facebook Copyright Dispute: Issues on Moral Rights and Posthumous Enforcement of Celebrity Rights

SpicyIP

He was credited with the creation of many musical compositions and choreographies. A copyright holder has the exclusive right to communicate his work to the public and as the plaintiff’s sound recordings were used without authorisation, copyright infringement could be easily proved. A celebrity’s name, photos, music, etc.

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SpicyIP Weekly Review (July 10 – July 16)

SpicyIP

We also came across the Delhi High Court orders on the interplay between the Patents Act and the Competition Act, and on the inheritability of personality rights. The plaintiff further argued that he was the lawful successor to the personality rights of the late actor. Her area of interest lies in IP and corporate law.

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Journey Through “Novembers” on SpicyIP (2005 – Present)

SpicyIP

From Big-B Baritone to Anil Kapoor’s Jhakaas, the life of Personality rights : Since Shouvik’s 2010 post about Amitabh Bachhan’s concern over the use of his voice to sell Gutka (an addictive substance), we have come to a long way! Speaking of late movie stars, one may wonder about the posthumous enforcement of celebrity rights.

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[Guest post] Artificial Intelligence and (hopefully) the death of copyright

The IPKat

The painter makes his own brush marks," while in music "sounds replace the lines and colour." They therefore introduced additional rights for derivative works, such as translations, film adaptations or musical arrangements (pp. If someone invades your privacy, you can enforce your personality rights.

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