Yuvraj Singh issues legal notices to real estate firms. According to Yuvraj Singh, copyrights were violate when the real estate company in question kept using his photo without getting his consent.
Yuvraj Singh, a southpaw and former world champion for Team India, has served two legal warnings to real estate companies in Delhi alleging that the notices contain arbitrary elements that violate private rights by means of deceptive advertising for projects that the companies manage.
Singh further asserts that the projects were not deliver in a timely manner in terms of possession. Despite these firms’ assurances to the contrary. Remarkably, the former cricket player reserved a home in the Hauz Khas neighborhood of Delhi back in 2020. The legal firm Rizwan Law Associates, which is representing Yuvraj Singh. Served notice and demanded a Letter of Possession in the event that there no good reason to retain possession. If an extension needed to finish the project. They also claim damages for delays in the project.
It has come to light that although Singh promise an apartment of the highest caliber
The real estate failed to deliver on this promise by giving him an apartment of considerably lower caliber. Notably, M/S Uppal Housing Private Limited, one of the noticees listed in the legal notices, owned this matter. The second notice sent to M/S Brilliant Etoile Private Limited. A different company, for flagrantly infringing both intellectual property rights and privacy rights.
“That this dispute principally concerns the violation of Intellectual Property Rights with respect to the Personality Rights and misuse of Brand Value of the Celebrity i.e., My Client in contravention to the terms of the Memorandum of Understanding dated 24.11.2020, however, My Client reserves the right to add the detailed instances and elaborate in further specificity in the Statement of Claim,” the second notice stated in The TelegraphIndia.
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Memorandum of Understanding expired in November last year
It is important to note that, with regard to the promotion and endorsement of projects carried out by the aforementioned real estate firm, a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) was duly signed by the relevant parties. On November 23 of last year, the Memorandum of Understanding expired. In spite of this, the company kept using Yuvraj Singh’s name and photos from the project site in billboard advertisements.
Not just that, the firm also continued the violation by using his personality in their social media campaigns along with news articles thereby amounting to a blatant violation of copyrights, right to publicity and personality rights as well.
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