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Delhi High Court Orders Takedown Of Allegedly Disparaging Content In Actor Tabus Personality Rights Suit

The Delhi High Court on Wednesday directed intermediaries to take down specified online URLs hosting content that actor Tabu alleged was defamatory, pornographic, or otherwise violative of her personality rights. The court also indicated that it would appoint an amicus curiae to examine broader issues arising in such cases.Justice Jyoti Singh, hearing the matter with Senior Advocate Swati Sukumar appearing for Tabu, considered content identified by the actor across social media platforms,...

Physics Wallah Founder Alakh Pandey Moves Delhi High Court Over Alleged Misuse Of Personality Rights

Physics Wallah founder Alakh Pandey on Tuesday moved the Delhi High Court seeking protection of his personality rights against the alleged unauthorised commercial exploitation of his identity. The court directed him to submit a defendant-wise tabulated chart classifying the alleged infringements before considering interim relief. Justice Anup Jairam Bhambhani asked Pandey to categorise the alleged violations into three classes: content commercialising or monetising his personality; content that...

Actor Tabu Moves Delhi High Court Over Alleged Personality Rights Violations

Actor Tabu has moved the Delhi High Court seeking removal of online content that she alleges disparages her and violates her personality rights. She has also sought action against the unauthorised use of her name and image across social media platforms, websites, and e-commerce portals. Justice Jyoti Singh heard submissions on Tuesday from social media intermediaries, domain registrars, and e-commerce platforms on their obligation to remove the disputed content. During the hearing, Meta...

Actor Shruti Haasan Moves Bombay High Court Over AI Deepfakes, Personality Rights Violations

Actress Shruti Haasan has moved the Bombay High Court with a commercial suit seeking ₹15 crore in damages, alleging that unauthorised merchandise sellers, online platforms, and unidentified parties have violated her personality and publicity rights by using her name, image, likeness and voice without her consent. She has also alleged the creation and circulation of AI-generated deepfake content, including sexually explicit videos and images featuring her.Justice Abhay Ahuja has granted Haasan...

Delhi High Court To Order Takedown Of Content Infringing Yuvraj Singhs Personality Rights

The Delhi High Court has indicated it will pass an interim order directing takedown of content infringing cricketer Yuvraj Singh's personality rights, while giving uploaders 48 hours to remove the material before intermediaries are asked to step in.Justice Jyoti Singh was hearing a suit filed by Yuvraj Singh on Wednesday seeking protection of his personality rights.Counsel for the cricketer took the Court through a list of infringing links as they stood the previous day, stating that two of them...

Delhi High Court Orders Takedown Of Kala Hiran Teaser, Related Clips In Salman Khans Personality Rights Suit

The Delhi High Court on Monday directed that all disputed links, including the teaser of movie Kala Hiran and other online content identified by actor Salman Khan in his personality rights suit, be taken down within 24 hours. The court further directed that if the uploaders failed to remove the content within that period, the platforms hosting it would take it down within the next 24 hours. Justice Jyoti Singh was hearing Khan's interim application in his personality rights suit against the...

Karnataka High Court Clears Release Of BOSS Movie, Rejects Darshans Plea Over Renukaswamy Murder Case Similarities

The Karnataka High Court has recently dismissed an appeal filed by actor Darshan Srinivas (Darshan Thoogudeepa) and his wife Vijayalakshmi challenging the refusal to temporarily restrain the release of the Kannada film BOSS. The court held that the existence of certain similarities between the film and the pending trial relating to the alleged murder of Renukaswamy, in which the actor is facing trial as an accused, was by itself not sufficient to justify an interim injunction. Justice Pradeep...

Delhi High Court Questions Invoking Personality Rights Over Investment Scammers Using AMC CEOs Photo

The Delhi High Court on Thursday questioned whether the alleged misuse of an Asset Management Company's CEO's photograph in an investment scam could be pursued as a personality rights claim, observing during the hearing that the allegations appeared to concern impersonation. Justice Jyoti Singh made the observation while hearing a suit filed by Aditya Birla Sun Life AMC Limited against unidentified persons allegedly operating fraudulent WhatsApp investment groups. Counsel for the company...

Bombay High Court Orders Takedown Of Content Infringing Actor Preity Zintas Personality Rights

The Bombay High Court on Wednesday directed Google/YouTube, X and Meta to remove or block access within 72 hours to the URLs identified in actor Preity Zinta's suit as infringing her personality rights, excluding one URL listed in the plaint. The direction came in a suit alleging unauthorised use of her identity through AI-generated deepfakes, chatbot personas, GIFs and merchandise. Justice Madhav J. Jamdar held that the material placed on record made out "a very strong prima facie case". ...

Delhi High Court To Order Takedown Of Content Misusing Cricketer Abhishek Sharmas Personality Rights

The Delhi High Court on Thursday indicated that it will pass interim orders in the personality rights suit filed by cricketer Abhishek Sharma, directing takedown of infringing content found to be misusing his persona.Justice Jyoti Singh was hearing the matter today in which the cricketer had earlier filed an application seeking the removal of unauthorised posts and listings across social media and e-commerce platforms that use the cricketer's name, image, and persona for commercial purposes.At...

Cricketer Abhishek Sharma Moves Delhi High Court Seeking Protection Of Personality Rights

Indian cricketer Abhishek Sharma has moved the Delhi High Court seeking removal of online AI generated defamatory content allegedly infringing his personality rights. The court refused to pass any interim orders after finding discrepancies between the screenshots relied upon by Sharma and the tabulated list of URLs annexed to his plaint. It directed him to file an additional affidavit with correctly matching screenshots before the matter is taken up again on July 9. Refusing to pass any...