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Deepfakes and Personality Rights: The Need for codifying Personality Rights.

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1] And since, the creator, consumer and subject of the content are distinctly different-the potential lack of empathy or misapprehension by the consumers towards the subject, based on the creators potrayal, necessitate a discussion of the subjects privacy and personality rights.

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[PART I] Personality Rights in Spotlight Once More!: Analysing The DHC’s Karan Johar v.  India Pride Advisory Order

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The Bombay High Court order of 7th March 2025, making the interim injunction in favour of Karan Johar absolute, has added more fuel to the fire of the debate over personality rights protection. However, it has become more common to uphold these rights without thoroughly reasoning each decision, and this case is an example of that.

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Unreasoned Orders for Personality Rights

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This obligation serves as a check against arbitrary exercise of judicial power, which is in line with Article 14 of the Constitution and the principles of natural justice. However, the order was brief and did not specify any statutory or common law basis for the protection of personality rights, merely citing Titan Industries as precedent.

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Synthetic Singers and Voice Theft: BomHC protects Arijit Singh’s Personality Rights [PART I]

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Codible Ventures LLP , marking a big step in the protection of artists’ personality rights against the unauthorised use of their voices by artificial intelligence (AI) tools. Second , in different places, the Court has used the language “Personality rights and right to publicity”.

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The Interplay of Personality Rights and Freedom of Expression- the Jackie Shroff’s Case’

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However, this article will discuss the reasoning of the court with respect to relief claimed by the Plaintiff against a creator of a YouTube video who compiled the interviews of the plaintiff and depicted his personality as ‘thug life’ The plaintiff contended that such videos portrayed him in a derogatory manner.

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Ferragamo did not infringe Audrey Hepburn’s image/personality rights by stating that its shoes were originally designed for her

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The Supreme Court’s decision Articles 6 and 7 of the Italian Civil Code recognize the right to one’s own name and a person’s entitlement to act against any third-party use, including but not limited to commercial uses, that might cause undue prejudice to them.

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Publicity rights in the AI era: Key takeaways from artist Arijit Singh’s recent legal Victory in India

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the Bombay Court recently took a pro-publicity and -personality rights stance in an ex-parte ad-interim order concerning the unauthorized use and cloning of Indian artist Arijit Singh ’s voice by multiple defendants. In essence, Arijit Singh lamented a troubling array of violations of his publicity and personality rights.