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Shivaji Rao Gaikwad v. M/s Varsha Productions
A celebrity's name is an attribute of his personality in which he holds an enforceable personality right, even absent statutory recognition of such a right in India; where the celebrity would be readily and exclusively identified …
False EndorsementFilm And OTT ContentPassing OffPersonality RightsCopyrightUniversal City Studios LLC & Ors. v. DotMovies.Baby & Ors.
Where rogue websites persistently pirate copyrighted content and reappear under mirror or alphanumeric-variant domain names, a court may grant a dynamic injunction that extends, without a fresh suit, both to future mirror or redir…
Copyright InfringementDigital PlatformsDynamic InjunctionFilm And OTT ContentCopyrightYash Raj Films Pvt. Ltd. v. Sri Sai Ganesh Productions & Ors.
The idea-expression dichotomy protects only a generic theme and not its particularised expression; where a subsequent film reproduces the specific sequence of plot events, character arcs and dramatic situations of an earlier film …
Cinematograph FilmCopyright InfringementFilm And OTT ContentIdea-Expression Dichotomy