The Telangana High Court, in a recent decision titled M/S Super Cassettes Industries Private Limited v. Nandi Chinni Kumar and Ors., has upheld the concept of “life rights” as elements of copyright- and in fact, upheld an order for an injunction against the Appellant’s (hereinafter, “Defendant”) film, for violating...
Often the Right to Privacy is viewed in conflict with certain other constitution safeguards: primarily the fundamental right of Freedom of expression, and often the scope and nature of the right to Privacy is tested through new parameters. Consequently, a balance needs to be struck and the boundaries and...
Introduction
The law of trademarks protects commercial symbols and signs appended to goods and/or services, including, but not limited to — a word, logo, number or device. Its twin purpose is to act as a source identifier for brands and help consumers distinguish the goods and/or services of one proprietor...
Recently the dispute between Shumita Deb (daughter of legendary musician Late Manna Dey) and Saregama reached the Supreme Court where the latter agreed to remove and not make any further use of the photographs and the name of Manna Dey on the cover of the subject CDs on a...
INTRODUCTION
Samuel Warren and Louis Brandeis in their ground-breaking article “The Right to Privacy” introduced a fundamental principle as per which an individual shall have full protection in person and in property. They defined Privacy as a principle as old as the common law.
The right to privacy as an independent and distinctive...
Recently, HMJ Amit Bansal of the Delhi High Court delivered a judgment with far-reaching implications, as the Hon’ble Court rejected the Plaintiffs’ application for interim injunction in Digital Collectibles Pte. Ltd. & Ors. v. Galactus Funware Technology Pvt. Ltd. & Anr. . In what is, in all likelihood, a...
In a recent interim order in the case of Jaikishan Kakubhai Saraf alias Jackie Shroff v. The Peppy Store & Ors., the Delhi High Court safeguarded the personality and publicity rights of actor Jackie Shroff and has restrained various entities, including e-commerce stores, Artificial Intelligence (“AI”) chatbots, and social...
Recently, the Telangana High Court, while hearing an appeal filed by Ram Gopal Varma observed that the right to privacy does not apply to incidents which are already in Public domain.
In this article, we attempt to take a closer look at the present case and the existing jurisprudence in...
As per reports, actor Sanjay Dutt has decided to take legal action against Juggernaut Books for publishing his biography without his permission. Authored by film journalist Yasser Usman, the book ‘The Crazy Untold Story of Bollywood’s Bad Boy — Sanjay Dutt’ exposes some controversial events from the actor’s personal...
In the suit filed by Late AIADMK chief Jayalalithaa’s niece, Deepa Jayakumar, before the Madras High Court, seeking a stay on two in-production projects, allegedly based on the former Tamil Nadu Chief Minister’s life –a film “Thalaivi” and a web series “Queen”- will tell the politician’s story, the Madras...
