SpicyIP

AUGUST 6, 2024

Codible Ventures LLP that has initiated a judicial discussion on the protection of artists’ personality rights against the unauthorised use of their voices by AI tools. This decision is likely to influence future legal standards on personality rights and the application of emerging technologies.

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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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JD Supra Law

OCTOBER 21, 2024

INTRODUCTION - Publicity rights play an important role in India based on the culture of celebrity worship and the importance of the name, image, and likeness of sports, television and media personalities, political figures, musicians, etc. In India, the right to publicity is recognised as a part of the right to privacy.

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IP and Legal Filings

JUNE 29, 2024

However, this article will discuss the reasoning of the court with respect to relief claimed by the Plaintiff against a creator of a YouTube video who compiled the interviews of the plaintiff and depicted his personality as ‘thug life’ The plaintiff contended that such videos portrayed him in a derogatory manner. million views.

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SpicyIP

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

Here is our recap of last week’s top IP developments including summary of the posts on the repudiations against personality rights, Govt. Part II: The Right to Publicity: 31 Years Since Madow’s Scathing Verdict, Yet……. Part III: The Right to Publicity: 31 Years Since Madow’s Scathing Verdict, Yet……. The Show Must Go On?

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LexBlog IP

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

Jokes aside, the title of today’s post is “Your Face, is My Case,” because we’re talking about likeness and image rights, sometimes collectively referred to as “personality rights.” Student athletes are allowed to fully control their personality rights and make money licensing them.

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SpicyIP

DECEMBER 27, 2024

In recent times, the Delhi High Court has been spewing out decisions involving the Personality Rights of celebrities. We had the Anil Kapoor decision last year and similar rulings followed in 2024 dealing with the rights of Jackie Shroff , Vishnu Manchu , Arijit Singh.

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The IPKat

APRIL 9, 2024

In all this, it is worth recalling that, under Italian law, image/personality rights have traditionally received broad protection. Comment There is little to say regarding this decision, if not that it appears difficult to imagine how the Court could have held otherwise.

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The IPKat

AUGUST 31, 2024

the Bombay Court recently took a pro-publicity and -personality rights stance in an ex-parte ad-interim order concerning the unauthorized use and cloning of Indian artist Arijit Singh ’s voice by multiple defendants. In essence, Arijit Singh lamented a troubling array of violations of his publicity and personality rights.

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Selvam & Selvam Blog

MAY 28, 2024

Considering the same, the Courts have started providing remedies under the scope of personality rights wherein protection is granted against the unauthorized use of names, images, voice, likeness, dialogues or traits of popular celebrities.

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Selvam & Selvam Blog

AUGUST 6, 2024

Codible Ventures LLP and Others , the Bombay High Court addressed a legal dispute of infringement of personality rights through the use of AI. The suit also involved a claim for the violation of his moral rights under Section 38B of the Copyright Act, 1957. In a recent judgment in the case of Arijit Singh v.

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JD Supra Law

JULY 25, 2023

There has been immense activity surrounding the jurisprudence of celebrity rights in India with numerous judicial pronouncements in recent years. By: International Lawyers Network

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SpicyIP

AUGUST 26, 2024

However, its specific emphasis on protecting certain elements of the whole scheme of copyrighted content, such as fictional characters and the distinctive personas they embody, has been a focal point, contributing substantially to the discourse surrounding the ever-expanding ambit of copyrightability as well as personality rights.

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SpicyIP

AUGUST 2, 2024

Explaining why and how such seemingly innocuous posts infringe on the shooter’s personality rights, we are pleased to bring to our readers this post by SpicyIP intern Tejas Misra. Personality Rights: Publicity or Privacy? It can include their face, voice, characteristics and distinctive qualities or attributes.

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SpicyIP

NOVEMBER 3, 2024

Here is our recap of last week’s top IP developments including summary of the posts on Delhi High Court’s orders in the Pertuzumab patent dispute, order concerning personality rights of the Telugu movie star Vishnu Manchu, and Madras High Court’s decision on burden of proof in patent revocation cases.

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SpicyIP

MAY 21, 2024

Comparing the approaches of the Courts vis a vis personality rights and the right to livelihood, we are pleased to bring to you this guest post by Aditya Bhargava. Comparing the approaches of the Courts vis a vis personality rights and the right to livelihood, we are pleased to bring to you this guest post by Aditya Bhargava.

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SpicyIP

JUNE 15, 2025

What Indian Courts Are Getting Wrong About Personality Rights? Delhi HC’s Orders in Sadhguru & Ankur Warikoo Cases: What Indian Courts Are Getting Wrong About Personality Rights? Anureet Kaur highlights the lack of a principled framework for assessing personality rights by Indian Courts.

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SpicyIP

MARCH 30, 2025

PART I] Personality Rights in Spotlight Once More!: India Pride Advisory Order Can a movie carrying the name of a personality be restrained from release citing infringement of personality rights? PART II] Personality Rights in Spotlight Once More!: Anything we are missing out on?

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IAM Magazine

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Using company designations in customer reference lists without explicit authorisation is grounds for infringement, Munich’s regional court has held. However, this ruling does not guarantee that further reimbursement will be granted.

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IAM Magazine

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Using company designations in customer reference lists without explicit authorisation is grounds for infringement, Munich’s regional court has held. However, this ruling does not guarantee that further reimbursement will be granted.

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Intepat

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

Recently, the courts have also recognized the commercial right over one’s personal data as a part of intellectual property rights. These commercial rights, also known as personality rights, seek to protect the personal data of celebrities from potential misuse. Rajagopal v. State of Tamil Nadu.

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McBayer IP Blog

MARCH 24, 2022

More > Tags: college athletes , collegiate athletics , Intellectual Property , Name, Image, and Likeness , NCAA , personality rights. This new law opens up many doors for college athletes to benefit from their most closely held intellectual property—themselves.

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SpicyIP

JANUARY 13, 2025

Here is our recap of last weeks top IP developments including summaries of the posts on Lemleys and Hendersons paper on AI Terms of Use Restrictions, CGPDTM order on the removal of a patent agent, Delhi HC order on disclosure of a PhD and Public Interest Need in Personality Rights cases. Anything we are missing out on?

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The IPKat

DECEMBER 17, 2024

The consultation is likely to elicit strong views from both sides of the debate; some rightsholders will be dismayed at the potential weakening of their rights in a very important market for creators, whereas AI developers will want to know how any proposals will apply in practice.

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SpicyIP

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.

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JD Supra Law

JUNE 11, 2024

The unprecedented Ensuring Likeness Voice and Image Security (“ELVIS”) Act greatly expands the reach of Tennessee’s Protection of Personal Rights law by creating an enforceable property right in a person’s “name, photograph, voice, or likeness.”

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JD Supra Law

MAY 1, 2024

Effective on July 1, 2024, the Ensuring Likeness Voice and Image Security (ELVIS) Act will amend Tennessee’s Personal Rights Protection Act of 1984 to explicitly include protections for songwriters, performers, and music industry professionals’ voice from misuse of artificial intelligence (AI).

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JD Supra Law

APRIL 10, 2023

In the Civil Code of the People's Republic of China, which came into effect as of January 1, 2021, “personality rights” has become a major highlight for its independent codification. As a result, the protection of human dignity and personality rights has been further strengthened.

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SpicyIP

MAY 14, 2025

Complementing the sessions by the core faculty members, the Summer School will see expert sessions offered by top legal as well as industry minds! design claims, as well as on trade secrets Chetali Rao (Sr.

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SpicyIP

DECEMBER 23, 2024

International IP Developments Brazilian judge orders global removal of Adele’s song “Million Years Ago” over plagiarism claim

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Nelligan Law

MARCH 25, 2025

He also understood the power of his own story, safeguarding his image through personality rights and exercising control over how his likeness was used. Rather than building companies from the ground up, he partnered with trusted firms through royalty-based agreements that scaled efficiently while protecting the integrity of his brand.

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IP and Legal Filings

JANUARY 31, 2024

In such a situation, public disclosure of even true private facts may amount to an invasion of the right of privacy which may sometimes lead to the clash of one persons “right to be let alone” with another persons right to be informed.28.

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The IPKat

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

One other thing that was noteworthy from this case was that the University sought the opinion of the Kenya Copyright Board (KECOBO) on the matter and KECOBO issued a Legal Opinion wherein it stated that the University’s actions may have violated the right to human dignity and privacy, data rights, personal rights and proprietary rights.

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The IPKat

MAY 29, 2023

Ochoa authors Chapter 9, which is devoted to the overlaps between copyright and the rights of publicity or personality rights. The hypothetical for this chapter is the case of paparazzi taking a picture of a celebrity and selling it for merchandising use. The analysis is offered from the US, the UK, and the EU perspectives.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

JUNE 14, 2023

So, the analogical link to civil personality rights would like to allow the introduction in the Italian legal system of a tort (extra-contractual liability) under article 2043 of the Civil Code for violation of an absolute right of the “person” State. 106), the instrumental use and reproduction (art.

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IP and Legal Filings

APRIL 10, 2025

The current statute provides protection of these celebrity rights under trademark law, copyright law as well as passing off action for infringing the said rights. Personality Rights: Personality is an attribute through which an individual is recognized in the society, depending upon the talent they possess.

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SpicyIP

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

on 7 February, 2025 (Delhi High Court) Image from here In a trademark and personality rights infringement suit, the plaintiffs, Sir Ratan Tata Trust and Tata Sons, sought relief against the defendants for unauthorized use of the well-known trademarks TATA and TATA TRUSTS, as well as the well-known personal name and image of Late Ratan N.

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