LexBlog IP
JULY 25, 2023
There has been immense activity surrounding the jurisprudence of celebrity rights in India with numerous judicial pronouncements in recent years. In a recent development, the High Court of Delhi confirmed that the publicity rights of individuals are not inheritable and extinguished with the death of the individual/celebrity.
SpicyIP
JULY 17, 2023
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. Looking at the Data from the IPO Annual Reports Patent filings and grants are at an all-time high in India. Her area of interest lies in IP and corporate law.
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SpicyIP
JULY 27, 2023
Factual Background The case at hand involved the plaintiff seeking an interim injunction against the defendants to restrain them from using the name/likeness of the late actor unauthorizedly through the release of the impugned film amounting to infiltration of personality rights, violation of free trial, passing off et al.
SpicyIP
JULY 13, 2021
Among the many grounds was the court’s refusal to afford post mortem protection to personality rights of the actor. The plaintiff censured the defendants for violating privacy, right to publicity, free and fair trial, also invoking the Ashok Kumar jurisdiction of the court. Brief facts. Court’s reasoning.
SpicyIP
JANUARY 2, 2022
An interim order issued by a single-judge bench of the Delhi High Court recognised the right to be forgotten (RTBF) as a subset of the fundamental right to privacy. Previously , the right had been discussed in the context of individual’s names appearing in judgments.
SpicyIP
JULY 19, 2021
She highlights that the Court refused to afford post mortem protection to personality rights of the actor. Nishtha emphasises that in determining whether the deceased possessed personality rights enforceable by his heirs, the Court based its reasoning on the intertwining between privacy and publicity rights.
The IPKat
AUGUST 9, 2021
On the one hand, there are privacy and data protection concerns, as this is a particularly intrusive form of data processing. As a next step, the SPC Provisions enumerate certain activities that infringe the personality rights and interests of natural persons. Likewise, many regulatory ventures focus on security.
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